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Chinese Buddhism today : conservatism, modernism, syncretism and enjoying life on the Buddha's light mountain
- Title
- Chinese Buddhism today : conservatism, modernism, syncretism and enjoying life on the Buddha's light mountain / Yu-Shuang Yao and Richard Gombrich.
- Author
- Yao, Yushuang
- Publication
- Sheffield, UK ; Bristol, CT : Equinox Publishing Ltd, 2022.
- ©2022
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- Gombrich, Richard F. (Richard Francis), 1937-
- Description
- xii, 127 pages : color illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "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 Mahāyāna Buddhism and more specifically is a form of Buddhism which in English is usually referred to as "Humanistic Buddhism" or as "engaged Buddhism". 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"--
- Series Statement
- Oxford centre for Buddhist studies monographs
- Uniform Title
- Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies monographs.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Informational works.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Foreword / by Eileen Barker -- 1. Preamble: Previous Work -- 2. Introduction: Our Title -- 3. Karma, Death and Ancestors -- 4. Hsing Yun's ethos and activities -- 5. FGS and Education -- 6. Public Ritual at FGS main monastery, Kaohsiung -- 7. Ritual as Symphony -- 8. Fo Guang Shan's activities: Edification through Spectacle and Entertainment -- 9. Offshoots of FGS -- Bibliography.
- ISBN
- 9781800502314
- 1800502311
- 9781800502321
- 180050232X
- 9781800502338 (canceled/invalid)
- 9781800502567 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2022002511
- 99993834160
- OCLC
- on1296689551
- 1296689551
- SCSB-14491836
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries