"Take the Vinaya as Your Master"

Monastic Discipline and Practices in Modern Chinese Buddhism

Ester Bianchi, Daniela Campo (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

402 Seiten

2023
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-53345-5 (ISBN)

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This book focuses on the restoration and renewal of Vinaya-related practices and standards in twentieth and twenty-first centuries China and Taiwan, and sheds light on the role played by monastic discipline within the dynamics of 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 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.

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).

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Acknowledgment

List of Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Part 1 Questioning Monastic Identity: Vinaya and Authenticity

1 Vinaya Master Hongyi’s 弘一 Vinaya Problem

Raoul Birnbaum

2 Retaking the Monastic Precepts: Shanghai Lay Buddhists’ Struggle for the Authenticity of Monkhood in the 1980s

Zhe Ji 汲喆

Part 2 Adjusting the Vinaya: Ordination Procedures

3 Discipline and Enlightenment: Hanyue Fazang 漢月法藏 (1573–1635) and the Spread of the Triple Platform Ordination Ceremony in Seventeenth-Century China

Jiang Wu 吳疆

4 Authenticity and Authority: Dual Ordination in Post-war Taiwan

Yu-chen Li 李玉珍

Part 3 Mahāyāna Vinaya: Bodhisattva Precepts and Chinese Monastic Codes

5 Yogācāra Bodhisattva Precepts in Twentieth Century China: Reevaluating Rules and Commitments in the Light of Modernity

Ester Bianchi

6 Changing Attitudes to the Precepts in Modern Taiwan: The Debate between Brahmā’s Net Precepts and Yogācāra Precepts

Pei-ying Lin 林佩瑩

7 Buddhist Monastic Regulations in Contemporary China: Adapting the Rules to a Changing Social and Political Context

Daniela Campo

Part 4 Vinaya Specifics in the Modern World: Body Movement and Sport Activities

8 Body Movement and Sport Activities: A Buddhist Normative Perspective from India to China

Ann Heirman and Tzu-Lung Chiu 邱子倫

9 Physical Exercise and Sporting Activities in Contemporary Taiwanese and Mainland Chinese Buddhist Monasteries

Tzu-Lung Chiu 邱子倫 and Ann Heirman

References

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	11.05.2023
Reihe/Serie	Studies on East Asian Religions ; 8
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	814 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus
ISBN-10	90-04-53345-1 / 9004533451
ISBN-13	978-90-04-53345-5 / 9789004533455
Zustand	Neuware