Take the Vinaya As Your Master : : Monastic Discipline and Practices in Modern Chinese Buddhism.

• Superior document: Studies on East Asian Religions Series ; v.8
• Author: Bianchi, Ester.
• TeilnehmendeR: Campo, Daniela.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 2023.; ©2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies on East Asian Religions Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (415 pages)

This book focuses on the restoration and renewal of Vinaya-related practices and standards in twentieth and twenty-first centuries China and Taiwan, and sheds light on the role played by monastic discipline within the dynamics of modern Chinese Buddhism.

Table of Contents

Intro -- ‎Contents -- ‎Acknowledgment -- ‎Figures and Tables -- ‎Notes on Contributors -- ‎Introduction -- ‎Part 1. Questioning Monastic Identity: Vinaya and Authenticity -- ‎Chapter 1. Vinaya Master Hongyi's 弘 一 Vinaya Problem (Birnbaum) -- ‎Chapter 2. Retaking the Monastic Precepts: Shanghai Lay Buddhists' Struggle for the Authenticity of Monkhood in the 1980s (Ji) -- ‎Part 2. Adjusting the Vinaya: Ordination Procedures -- ‎Chapter 3. Discipline and Enlightenment: Hanyue Fazang 漢 月 法 and the Spread of the Triple Platform Ordination Ceremony in Seventeenth-Century China (Wu) -- ‎Chapter 4. Authenticity and Authority: Dual Ordination in Post-war Taiwan (Li) -- ‎Part 3. Mahāyāna Vinaya: Bodhisattva Precepts and Chinese Monastic Codes -- ‎Chapter 5. Yogācāra Bodhisattva Precepts in Twentieth Century China: Reevaluating Rules and Commitments in the Light of Modernity (Bianchi) -- ‎Chapter 6. Changing Attitudes to the Precepts in Modern Taiwan: The Debate between Brahmā's Net Precepts and Yogācāra Precepts (Lin) -- ‎Chapter 7. Buddhist Monastic Regulations in Contemporary China: Adapting the Rules to a Changing Social and Political Context (Campo) -- ‎Part 4. Vinaya Specifics in the Modern World: Body Movement and Sport Activities -- ‎Chapter 8. Body Movement and Sport Activities: A Buddhist Normative Perspective from India to China (Heirman and Chiu) -- ‎Chapter 9. Physical Exercise and Sporting Activities in Contemporary Taiwanese and Mainland Chinese Buddhist Monasteries (Chiu and Heirman) -- ‎References -- ‎Index.