Anarchy in the Pure Land: Reinventing the Cult of Maitreya in Modern Chinese Buddhism
Autor Justin Ritzingeren Limba Engleză Hardback – 25 oct 2017
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780190491161
ISBN-10: 0190491167
Pagini: 352
Ilustrații: 4 illus.
Dimensiuni: 239 x 155 x 31 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 0190491167
Pagini: 352
Ilustrații: 4 illus.
Dimensiuni: 239 x 155 x 31 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Recenzii
This book sheds new light on the origins of Humanistic Buddhism, the Tantric Revival, and contemporary Sinic Buddhism. It also adds nuance to our understanding of Taixu's modernism. Scholars of modern Chinese Buddhism and global Buddhist modernities will greatly benefit from this book. Additionally, the writing is accessible enough to be read by advanced undergraduates and non-specialists.
Anarchy in the Pure Land without a doubt opens up a new territory in the study of Taixu, setting a new standard for this area of research. We hope his achievements will give new insights and a new direction to the entire field of research into modern Chinese Buddhism.
Justin R. Ritzinger unsettles a good deal of received scholarly wisdom and forces a new look at old issues ... this book will be indispensable for anyone interested in the history of modern Chinese Buddhism or the history of modern China. I recommend it without reservation.
Ritzinger's fine book...provides a very valuable service, giving us not only a much-needed, highly detailed account of the thinking of a major actor in China's modern history, but also a wealth of powerful arguments about the ultimate compatibility of anarchism and Buddhist activism. Likewise, his thorough investigation of the attempted recuperation of Maitreya, the future Buddha, and of Maitreyanism, with its multiple historical instantiations in a plethora of salvific movements, to twentieth-century mainstream Buddhist orthodoxy, offers us an engaging way to think with Chinese history, revolution, and religious practice in modern times... Written in an accessible style without sacrificing complexity of analysis, Anarchy in the Pure Land will be suitable for inclusion in undergraduate and graduate courses in Chinese Studies, Chinese Buddhism, Chinese history, and religious studies.
This is a work of intellectual history. Although institutional issues are discussed in passing, the primary goal of this book is to explain the context, development, and enduring legacy of Taixu's ideas about, and devotion to, Maitreya. While intellectual history is not the only approach used by contemporary scholars of modern Chinese Buddhism, it is a favored one. Here Ritzinger employs it in classical fashion as he analyzes the development over time of the ideas of a single individual, and the impact that contemporary events and trends had on that individual's thinking. Much of his source material consists of articles from radical and Buddhist journals, and published records of lectures given by Taixu.
Anarchy in the Pure Land without a doubt opens up a new territory in the study of Taixu, setting a new standard for this area of research. We hope his achievements will give new insights and a new direction to the entire field of research into modern Chinese Buddhism.
Justin R. Ritzinger unsettles a good deal of received scholarly wisdom and forces a new look at old issues ... this book will be indispensable for anyone interested in the history of modern Chinese Buddhism or the history of modern China. I recommend it without reservation.
Ritzinger's fine book...provides a very valuable service, giving us not only a much-needed, highly detailed account of the thinking of a major actor in China's modern history, but also a wealth of powerful arguments about the ultimate compatibility of anarchism and Buddhist activism. Likewise, his thorough investigation of the attempted recuperation of Maitreya, the future Buddha, and of Maitreyanism, with its multiple historical instantiations in a plethora of salvific movements, to twentieth-century mainstream Buddhist orthodoxy, offers us an engaging way to think with Chinese history, revolution, and religious practice in modern times... Written in an accessible style without sacrificing complexity of analysis, Anarchy in the Pure Land will be suitable for inclusion in undergraduate and graduate courses in Chinese Studies, Chinese Buddhism, Chinese history, and religious studies.
This is a work of intellectual history. Although institutional issues are discussed in passing, the primary goal of this book is to explain the context, development, and enduring legacy of Taixu's ideas about, and devotion to, Maitreya. While intellectual history is not the only approach used by contemporary scholars of modern Chinese Buddhism, it is a favored one. Here Ritzinger employs it in classical fashion as he analyzes the development over time of the ideas of a single individual, and the impact that contemporary events and trends had on that individual's thinking. Much of his source material consists of articles from radical and Buddhist journals, and published records of lectures given by Taixu.
Notă biografică
Justin R. Ritzinger is an assistant professor of Religious Studies at the University of Miami. He received his PhD in the Study of Religion from Harvard in 2010. His work examines the reimagining of Chinese Buddhism in the modern period, particularly in response to novel ideas and values from abroad.