"Take the Vinaya as your master": monastic discipline and practices in modern Chinese Buddhism
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 p...
| Summary: | 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 Mahayana 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 AcknowledgmentList of Figures and TablesNotes on ContributorsIntroductionPart 1 Questioning Monastic Identity: Vinaya and Authenticity1 Vinaya Master Hongyi's Vinaya Problem Raoul Birnbaum2 Retaking the Monastic Precepts: Shanghai Lay Buddhists' Struggle for the Authenticity of Monkhood in the 1980s Zhe Ji Part 2 Adjusting the Vinaya: Ordination Procedures3 Discipline and Enlightenment: Hanyue Fazang (1573-1635) and the Spread of the Triple Platform Ordination Ceremony in Seventeenth-Century China Jiang Wu 4 Authenticity and Authority: Dual Ordination in Post-war Taiwan Yu-chen Li Part 3 Mahayana Vinaya: Bodhisattva Precepts and Chinese Monastic Codes5 Yogacara Bodhisattva Precepts in Twentieth Century China: Reevaluating Rules and Commitments in the Light of Modernity Ester Bianchi6 Changing Attitudes to the Precepts in Modern Taiwan: The Debate between Brahma's Net Precepts and Yogacara Precepts Pei-ying Lin 7 Buddhist Monastic Regulations in Contemporary China: Adapting the Rules to a Changing Social and Political Context Daniela CampoPart 4 Vinaya Specifics in the Modern World: Body Movement and Sport Activities8 Body Movement and Sport Activities: A Buddhist Normative Perspective from India to China Ann Heirman and Tzu-Lung Chiu 9 Physical Exercise and Sporting Activities in Contemporary Taiwanese and Mainland Chinese Buddhist Monasteries Tzu-Lung Chiu and Ann HeirmanReferencesIndex |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 9004536876 |