Take the Vinaya as Your Master

Monastic Discipline and Practices in Modern Chinese Buddhism
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-53345-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 8, 402 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 814 g

Reihe: Studies on East Asian Religions

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bianchi, Ester

Campo, Daniela

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Buddhismus Buddhismus: Leben & Praxis, Soziale Aspekte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

9789004533455
Acknowledgment

List of Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Part 1 Questioning Monastic Identity: Vinaya and Authenticity

1 Vinaya Master Hongyi’s ?? Vinaya Problem

Raoul Birnbaum

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

Zhe Ji ??

Part 2 Adjusting the Vinaya: Ordination Procedures

3 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 Codes

5 Yogacara 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 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 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 ???

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

Tzu-Lung Chiu ??? and Ann Heirman

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

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).