Chinese Buddhism Today : Conservatism, Modernism, Syncretism and Enjoying Life on the Buddha's Light Mountain

Gombrich, Richard; Yao, Yu-shuang

ISBN 10: 1800502311 / ISBN 13: 9781800502314

Edité par Equinox Publishing, 2022

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• Titre: Chinese Buddhism Today : Conservatism, Modernism, Syncretism and Enjoying Life on the Buddha's Light Mountain
• Éditeur: Equinox Publishing
• Date de parution: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1800502311
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781800502314
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• État de l'article: New

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Synopsis

Fo Guang Shan, Buddha's Light Mountain, is a Buddhist movement founded in Taiwan in 1967 and led by the Ven Hsing Yun (b.1927), who had fled to Taiwan from mainland China in 1949. It stands in the Chinese tradition of Mahayana Buddhism and more specifically is a form of Buddhism which in English is usually referred to as Humanistic Buddhism or as engaged Buddhism. Humanistic Buddhism owes its origin to the Chinese monk Tai Xu (1890-1947). He found the Buddhism which surrounded him in China dreary and moribund, preoccupied with rituals for the dead, and offering nothing to help or guide people living in the world outside monasteries. His determination to reverse this decay centred on the idea that it was the vocation of a Mahayana Buddhist to do good to others, finding their own spiritual benefit in benefitting society. Hsing Yun has been a devoted disciple of Tai Xu. It is telling that he founded a seminary before he founded a monastery, and has laid huge emphasis on education. As the sub-title of this book indicates, in order to make Buddhism widely attractive and relevant he has incorporated every influence available. Gifted with a benign personality, he has turned his seemingly boundless energy and prodigious versatility to creating an institution which presents Buddhism as potentially a source for benefitting society through making life enjoyable. This book hopes to convey the movement's ethos primarily by focusing on his views and activities.

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Yu-Shuang Yao is a Professor at Fo Guang University, Taiwan, specializing in contemporary religions of Taiwan. Richard Gombrich is founder and President of the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies. Before his retirement in 2004, he held the Boden Chair of Sanskrit at Oxford University and a Professorial Fellowship at Balliol College for 28 years. He supervised nearly 50 theses on Buddhist topics, and is the author of 200 publications. He continues to lecture and teach at universities round the world.