The Origins Of Buddhist Monastic Codes In China

Author : Professor Yifa
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009-08-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780824863807

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The Origins of Buddhist Monastic Codes in China by Professor Yifa Pdf

The Origins of Buddhist Monastic Codes in China contains the first complete translation of China’s earliest and most influential monastic code. The twelfth-century text Chanyuan qinggui (Rules of Purity for the Chan Monastery) provides a wealth of detail on all aspects of life in public Buddhist monasteries during the Sung (960–1279). Part One consists of Yifa’s overview of the development of monastic regulations in Chinese Buddhist history, a biography of the text’s author, and an analysis of the social and cultural context of premodern Chinese Buddhist monasticism. Of particular importance are the interconnections made between Chan traditions and the dual heritages of Chinese culture and Indian Buddhist Vinaya. Although much of the text’s source material is traced directly to the Vinayas and the works of the Vinaya advocate Daoan (312–385) and the Lü master Daoxuan (596–667), the Chanyuan qinggui includes elements foreign to the original Vinaya texts—elements incorporated from Chinese governmental policies and traditional Chinese etiquette. Following the translator’s overview is a complete translation of the text, extensively annotated.

Author : Huaiyu Chen
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0820486248

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The Revival of Buddhist Monasticism in Medieval China by Huaiyu Chen Pdf

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Author : Michael John Walsh
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231148320

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Sacred Economies by Michael John Walsh Pdf

Buddhist monasteries in medieval China employed a variety of practices to ensure their ascendancy and survival. Most successful was the exchange of material goods for salvation, as in the donation of land, which allowed monks to spread their teachings throughout China. By investigating a variety of socioeconomic spaces produced and perpetuated by Chinese monasteries, Michael J. Walsh reveals the "sacred economies" that shaped early Buddhism and its relationship with consumption and salvation. Centering his study on Tiantong, a Buddhist monastery that has thrived for close to seventeen centuries in southeast China, Walsh follows three main topics: the spaces monks produced, within and around which a community could pursue a meaningful existence; the social and economic avenues through which monasteries provided diverse sacred resources and secured the primacy of Buddhist teachings within an agrarian culture; and the nature of "transactive" participation within monastic spaces, which later became a fundamental component of a broader Chinese religiosity. Unpacking these sacred economies and repositioning them within the history of religion in China, Walsh encourages a different approach to the study of Chinese religion, emphasizing the critical link between religious exchange and the production of material culture.

Author : John Kieschnick
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1997-07-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0824818415

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The Eminent Monk by John Kieschnick Pdf

In an attempt to reconstruct an elusive aspect of the medieval Chinese imagination, The Eminent Monk examines biographies of Chinese Buddhist monks, from the uncompromising ascetic to the unfathomable wonder-worker. While analyzing images of the monk in medieval China, the author addresses some questions encountered along the way: What are we to make of accounts in “eminent monk” collections of deviant monks who violate monastic precepts? Who wrote biographies of monks and who read them? How did different segments of Chinese society contend for the image of the monk and which image prevailed? By placing biographies of monks in the context of Chinese political and religious rhetoric, The Eminent Monk explores both the role of Buddhist literature in Chinese history and the monastic imagination that inspired this literature.

Author : Chün-fang Yü
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780231552677

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The Renewal of Buddhism in China by Chün-fang Yü Pdf

First published in 1981, The Renewal of Buddhism in China broke new ground in the study of Chinese Buddhism. An interdisciplinary study of a Buddhist master and reformer in late Ming China, it challenged the conventional view that Buddhism had reached its height under the Tang dynasty (618–907) and steadily declined afterward. Chün-fang Yü details how in sixteenth-century China, Buddhism entered a period of revitalization due in large part to a cohort of innovative monks who sought to transcend sectarian rivalries and doctrinal specialization. She examines the life, work, and teaching of one of the most important of these monks, Zhuhong (1535–1615), a charismatic teacher of lay Buddhists and a successful reformer of monastic Buddhism. Zhuhong’s contributions demonstrate that the late Ming was one of the most creative periods in Chinese intellectual and religious history. Weaving together diverse sources—scriptures, dynastic history, Buddhist chronicles, monks’ biographies, letters, ritual manuals, legal codes, and literature—Yü grounds Buddhism in the reality of Ming society, highlighting distinctive lay Buddhist practices to provide a vivid portrait of lived religion. Since the book was published four decades ago, many have written on the diversity of Buddhist beliefs and practices in the centuries before and after Zhuhong’s time, yet The Renewal of Buddhism in China remains a crucial touchstone for all scholarship on post-Tang Buddhism. This fortieth anniversary edition features updated transliteration, a foreword by Daniel B. Stevenson, and an updated introduction by the author speaking to the ongoing relevance of this classic work.

Author : Steven Heine,Dale S. Wright
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780195304671

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Zen Ritual by Steven Heine,Dale S. Wright Pdf

Written by prominent scholars, this text covers rituals from the early Chan period to modern Japan and key developments that occurred in the Linji/Rinzai and Caodon/Soto schools. It describes how rituals mould the lives of its practitioners in accordance with the ideal of Zen awakening.

Author : Johannes Prip-Moller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:312094903

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Chinese Buddhist Monasteries by Johannes Prip-Moller Pdf

Author : Zenryū Tsukamoto
Publisher : Kodansha
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : UOM:39015011278424

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A History of Early Chinese Buddhism by Zenryū Tsukamoto Pdf

Author : Holmes Welch
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0674697006

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The Practice of Chinese Buddhism, 1900-1950 by Holmes Welch Pdf

Based partly on unpublished documents and oral information obtained from monks who headed major monasteries on mainland China, Holmes Welch presents a detailed description of the modern practice of Chinese Buddhism. Focusing on the actual rather than the theoretical observances of the religion, he gives an exhaustive account of the monastic system and the style of life of both monk and layman. His study makes new information available for the Western reader and calls into question the whole concept of the moribund state of Chinese Buddhism.

Author : Arthur F. Wright
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Buddhism in Chinese History by Arthur F. Wright Pdf

Author : Thomas Jülch
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004447486

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Zhipan’s Account of the History of Buddhism in China by Thomas Jülch Pdf

With his carefully annotated translation of Fozu tongji, juan 39-42, Thomas Jülch enables an in-depth understanding of a key text of Chinese Buddhist historiography.

Author : Ester Bianchi,Daniela Campo
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004536876

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"Take the Vinaya as Your Master" by Ester Bianchi,Daniela Campo Pdf

This volume explores the role played by monastic discipline in the emergence and evolution of modern Chinese Buddhism. A central feature of the Buddhist tradition, monastic discipline has received growing attention in the contemporary Buddhist world, but little from scholars. Adopting a diachronic perspective and a multidisciplinary approach, contributions by leading scholars investigate relevant Vinaya-related practices in twentieth and twenty-first centuries China and Taiwan, including issues of monastic identity and authenticity, updated ordination procedures, recent variations of Mahāyāna precepts and rules, and original perspectives on body movement and related sport activities. The restoration and renewal of Vinaya practices and standards within Chinese Buddhist practices shed new light on the response of Buddhist leaders and communities to the challenges of modernity. Contributors are: Ester Bianchi, Raoul Birnbaum, Daniela Campo, Tzu-Lung Chiu, Ann Heirman, Zhe Ji, Yu-chen Li, Pei-ying Lin, and Jiang Wu.

Author : Kenneth Kuan Sheng Ch'en
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780691646152

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Chinese Transformation of Buddhism by Kenneth Kuan Sheng Ch'en Pdf

When Buddhism was introduced into China at about the beginning of the Christian era, the Chinese were captivated at first by its overpowering world view. Consequently, Buddhism in China has usually been discussed in terms of the Indianization of Chinese life and thought, but Kenneth Ch'en shows that as Indian ideas were gaining ground the Chinese were choosing among them and modifying them to fit their situation. To demonstrate how the Chinese transformed Buddhism the author investigates its role in the ethical, political, literary, educational, and social life of the Chinese. Buddhism was able to gain a wide following by accommodating itself to Chinese ethical practices. The Buddhist monastic community submitted to the jurisdiction of the state and the monasteries also became integrated into the economic life of the empire through their ownership of land and their operation of industrial and commercial enterprises. Through an analysis of the work of a representative Chinese poet the author reveals the ways in which Buddhism came to be reflected in the literary life of China. Finally, he explores the methods used by the Buddhists to popularize their religion. Originally published in 1973. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Jack Meng-Tat Chia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : 0190091002

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Monks in Motion by Jack Meng-Tat Chia Pdf

"Chinese Buddhists have never remained stationary. They have always been on the move. Why did Buddhist monks migrate from China to Southeast Asia? How did they participate in transregional Buddhist networks across the South China Sea? In Monks in Motion, Jack Meng-Tat Chia tells a story of monastic connectivity across the South China Sea during the twentieth century. Following in the footsteps of three prominent monks-Chuk Mor (1913-2002), Yen Pei (1917-1996), and Ashin Jinarakkhita (1923-2002)-Chia explores the connected history of Buddhist communities in China and maritime Southeast Asia. Monks in Motion is the first book to offer a history of what Chia terms "South China Sea Buddhism," referring to a Buddhism that emerged from a swirl of correspondence networks, forced exiles, voluntary visits, evangelizing missions, institution-building campaigns, and the organizational efforts of countless Chinese and Chinese diasporic Buddhist monks. Drawing on multilingual research conducted in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, he challenges the conventional categories of "Chinese Buddhism" and "Southeast Asian Buddhism" by focusing on the lesser-known-yet no less significant-Chinese Buddhist communities of maritime Southeast Asia. By crossing the artificial spatial frontier between China and Southeast Asia, Monks in Motion brings Southeast Asia into the study of Chinese Buddhism and Chinese Buddhism into the study of Southeast Asia. Chuk Mor, Yen Pei, Ashin Jinarakkhita, South China Sea Buddhism, Buddhist modernism, Chinese Buddhism, Southeast Asian Buddhism, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore"--

Author : Reginald Fleming Johnston
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1913
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108080330

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Buddhist China by Reginald Fleming Johnston Pdf

An informed 1913 account of Mahayana Buddhism and monasticism by the British administrator and scholar who tutored China's last emperor.