A Spiritual Evolutionism: Lü Cheng, Aesthetic Revolution, and the Rise of a Buddhism-Inflected Social Ontology in Modern China
This study examines the early career of the renowned Buddhologist Lü Cheng as an aspiring revolutionary. My findings reveal that Lü’s rhetoric of “aesthetic revolution” both catapulted him into the center of the New Culture Movement and popularized a Buddhist idealism—Yogācāra (consciousness-only sc...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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2021
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Journal of global buddhism
Year: 2021, Volume: 22, Issue: 1, Pages: 49-75 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Lü, Simian 1884-1957
/ Social Darwinism
/ Rejection of
/ Spirituality
/ Evolution
/ Ideals (Aesthetics)
/ Fourth of May movement
/ Yogācāra
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RelBib Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism AD Sociology of religion; religious policy BL Buddhism KBM Asia |
Further subjects: | B
Buddhist soteriology
B Social Philosophy B Yogācāra B evolutionism B Aesthetics B May Fourth New Culture Movement B Anti-realism |
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Rights Information: | CC BY-NC 4.0 |