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Book SynopsisThis volume explores the role played by monastic discipline in the emergence and evolution of modern Chinese Buddhism. A central feature of the Buddhist tradition, monastic discipline has received growing attention in the contemporary Buddhist world, but little from scholars. Adopting a diachronic perspective and a multidisciplinary approach, contributions by leading scholars investigate relevant Vinaya-related practices in twentieth and twenty-first centuries China and Taiwan, including issues of monastic identity and authenticity, updated ordination procedures, recent variations of Mahāyāna precepts and rules, and original perspectives on body movement and related sport activities. The restoration and renewal of Vinaya practices and standards within Chinese Buddhist practices shed new light on the response of Buddhist leaders and communities to the challenges of modernity. Contributors are: Ester Bianchi, Raoul Birnbaum, Daniela Campo, Tzu-Lung Chiu, Ann Heirman, Zhe Ji, Yu-chen Li, Pei-ying Lin, and Jiang Wu.
Table of Contents9789004533455 Acknowledgment List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction Part 1 Questioning Monastic Identity: Vinaya and Authenticity 1 Vinaya Master Hongyi’s 弘一 Vinaya Problem Raoul Birnbaum 2 Retaking the Monastic Precepts: Shanghai Lay Buddhists’ Struggle for the Authenticity of Monkhood in the 1980s Zhe Ji 汲喆 Part 2 Adjusting the Vinaya: Ordination Procedures 3 Discipline and Enlightenment: Hanyue Fazang 漢月法藏 (1573–1635) and the Spread of the Triple Platform Ordination Ceremony in Seventeenth-Century China Jiang Wu 吳疆 4 Authenticity and Authority: Dual Ordination in Post-war Taiwan Yu-chen Li 李玉珍 Part 3 Mahāyāna Vinaya: Bodhisattva Precepts and Chinese Monastic Codes 5 Yogācāra Bodhisattva Precepts in Twentieth Century China: Reevaluating Rules and Commitments in the Light of Modernity Ester Bianchi 6 Changing Attitudes to the Precepts in Modern Taiwan: The Debate between Brahmā’s Net Precepts and Yogācāra Precepts Pei-ying Lin 林佩瑩 7 Buddhist Monastic Regulations in Contemporary China: Adapting the Rules to a Changing Social and Political Context Daniela Campo Part 4 Vinaya Specifics in the Modern World: Body Movement and Sport Activities 8 Body Movement and Sport Activities: A Buddhist Normative Perspective from India to China Ann Heirman and Tzu-Lung Chiu 邱子倫 9 Physical Exercise and Sporting Activities in Contemporary Taiwanese and Mainland Chinese Buddhist Monasteries Tzu-Lung Chiu 邱子倫 and Ann Heirman References Index
