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Take the Vinaya as Your Master: Monastic Discipline and Practices in Modern Chinese Buddhism (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004533455)
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xThis 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: Ester Bianchi
ISBN-10: 9004533451
ISBN-13: 9789004533455
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 04/20/2023
Pages: 402
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.65lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.10w x 0.94d
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: Ester Bianchi
ISBN-10: 9004533451
ISBN-13: 9789004533455
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 04/20/2023
Pages: 402
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.65lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.10w x 0.94d
By Ester Bianchi
xEster 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).
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