ABSTRACT In contemporary China, Buddhism is thriving in many forms and various milieus,
a phenomenon that can be compared to the status of Buddhism during the Republican …

The aim of this exploratory study is to provide an outline of the Vinaya renewal in China in
the first half of the twentieth century, and to point to its meanings and effects in the context of …

On his death-bed, the Buddha advised his disciples to rely on the monastic discipline he had
expounded. 1 Consequently, the title dashi 大 師, Great Master, originally reserved for the …

Renjian fojiao [Buddhism for the Human Realm/Humanis-tic Buddhism] movements began
in the early 20th century. From the 1980s, it has become a leading trend of Buddhism in the …

Over the recent decades, Chinese Buddhism has been experiencing a modest resurgence,
especially when compared with the havoc and destruction that unfolded during the …

Within the two so-called Buddhist revivals in modern and contemporary China, 1 there were
also several resurgences of monastic discipline. 2 While scholars have recently begun to …

The aim of this study is to highlight the role played by a time-honoured yet creative pattern of
monastic reform in the transition of Chinese Buddhism to modernity: this is the renewal of …

In its role as a scriptural charter, vinaya has justified widely dissimilar approaches to
religious life as Buddhist orders in different times and places have interpreted it in …

Bodhisattva ideas have steadily developed since medieval times, to become key
characteristics of Chinese Mahāyāna Buddhism. Monks and nuns in the Mahāyāna tradition …

Since the first century, when Buddhism entered China, the foreign religion has influenced
and been influenced in turn by traditional Chinese culture, and eventually became an …