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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.
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.
Price: $138.00
Pages: 402
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Studies on East Asian Religions
Publication Date:
20 April 2023
ISBN: 9789004533455
Format: Hardcover
"This volume employs a multidisciplinary approach, with contributors ranging from historians of religion, philologists, anthropologists, and sociologists as well as a long-term diachronic perspective. Given the wealth of studies pertaining to the vinaya in the twentieth century, it is surprising that the Chinese context is comparatively neglected. This volume succeeds in filling this gap and would be of immense use to those interested in Chinese Buddhism or the broader field of vinaya studies." - Joseph Chadwin, Religous Studies Review, 49/4 (2023).
Ester Bianchi, Ph.D. (2003), University of Venice and École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE), is Associate Professor at Perugia University. She authored The Iron Statue Monastery, Tiexiangsi: A Buddhist Nunnery of Tibetan Tradition in Contemporary China (2001) and a translation of the Gaoseng Faxian zhuan (2013).
Daniela Campo, Ph.D. (2011), École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE), is Associate Professor at the University of Strasbourg. She is the author of La construction de la sainteté dans la Chine moderne: la vie du maître bouddhiste Xuyun (2013).
Daniela Campo, Ph.D. (2011), École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE), is Associate Professor at the University of Strasbourg. She is the author of La construction de la sainteté dans la Chine moderne: la vie du maître bouddhiste Xuyun (2013).