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portada The Renewal of Buddhism in China: Zhuhong and the Late Ming Synthesis
Type
Physical Book
Author
Preface by
Publisher
Language
English
Pages
360
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
23.4x15.6x2.4 cm
Weight
0.73 kg.
ISBN13
9780231198523
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The Renewal of Buddhism in China: Zhuhong and the Late Ming Synthesis

Chün-Fang Yü (Author) · Daniel B. Stevenson (Preface by) · Columbia University Press · Hardcover

The Renewal of Buddhism in China: Zhuhong and the Late Ming Synthesis - Yü, Chün-Fang ; Stevenson, Daniel B.

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Synopsis "The Renewal of Buddhism in China: Zhuhong and the Late Ming Synthesis"

First published in 1981, The Renewal of Buddhism in China broke new ground in the study of Chinese Buddhism. An interdisciplinary study of a Buddhist master and reformer in late Ming China, it challenged the conventional view that Buddhism had reached its height under the Tang dynasty (618-907) and steadily declined afterward. Chün-fang Yü details how in sixteenth-century China, Buddhism entered a period of revitalization due in large part to a cohort of innovative monks who sought to transcend sectarian rivalries and doctrinal specialization. She examines the life, work, and teaching of one of the most important of these monks, Zhuhong (1535-1615), a charismatic teacher of lay Buddhists and a successful reformer of monastic Buddhism. Zhuhong's contributions demonstrate that the late Ming was one of the most creative periods in Chinese intellectual and religious history. Weaving together diverse sources--scriptures, dynastic history, Buddhist chronicles, monks' biographies, letters, ritual manuals, legal codes, and literature--Yü grounds Buddhism in the reality of Ming society, highlighting distinctive lay Buddhist practices to provide a vivid portrait of lived religion. Since the book was published four decades ago, many have written on the diversity of Buddhist beliefs and practices in the centuries before and after Zhuhong's time, yet The Renewal of Buddhism in China remains a crucial touchstone for all scholarship on post-Tang Buddhism. This fortieth anniversary edition features updated transliteration, a foreword by Daniel B. Stevenson, and an updated introduction by the author speaking to the ongoing relevance of this classic work.

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