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100	1		_aPittman, Don Alvin, _d1948-
245	1	0	_aToward a modern Chinese Buddhism : _bTaixu's reforms / _cDon. A. Pittman.
264		1	_aHonolulu : _bUniversity of Hawai'i Press, _c[2001]
264		4	_c©2001
300			_a1 online resource (xi, 389 pages) : _billustrations.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 363-378) and index.
505	0	0	_tIntroduction: In Search of a New Buddhism -- _tDefending the Dharma in a Revolutionary Age -- _tThe Sound of the Tide for a New China -- _tAn Ecumenical Vision for Global Mission -- _tMahayana and the Modern World -- _tA Creative Recovery of Tradition -- _tTaixu's Legacy.
520	1		_a"The Venerable Master Taixu (1890-1947) is the most important and controversial Chinese Buddhist reformer of the twentieth century. Viewed as dangerously rash by conservative Buddhists, irrelevant by secular humanists, and spiritually misguided by Christian missionaries, Taixu was nevertheless committed to forging a socially engaged form of Buddhism and to organizing a Buddhist mission in the West. His bold and inventive "Buddhist revolution" continues to shape aspects of a revitalized Buddhism in East Asia and around the world. The present volume is the first major study in English to focus on the charismatic reformer and his teachings and provides a comprehensive and absorbing interpretation of Taixu's aims and the divisive controversies that surrounded him. This nuanced work is documented with quotations from Taixu's own writings and from various Chinese intellectuals and evangelists of the period." "As the most politically involved of all the Buddhist leaders in the Republican period, Taixu sought to present Mahayana Buddhism as the core of a new Chinese culture and the only adequate foundation for a truly global civilization. Distancing himself from those masters who focused on otherworldly paradises and stressed dependence on celestial buddhas and bodhisattvas, he emphasized what could actually be accomplished in this world through the work of thousands of living bodhisattvas dedicated to building a pure land here and now. A realist who acknowledged the complexities of the human condition in an increasingly interdependent and violent world, Taixu was also a utopian who tried to imagine how Buddhists could begin to realize their ultimate ideals - ideals that in fact lay beyond the preservation of institutional Buddhism itself." "Students of Buddhism, Chinese religion, contemporary Chinese history and culture, and Taiwan studies will welcome this study of a crucially important and intriguingly complex individual whose life encapsulates many of the forces and possibilities apparent within Chinese Buddhism in the contemporary world."--BOOK JACKET.
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
600	0	0	_aTaixu, _d1889-1947.
650		0	_aBuddhist renewal _zChina.
600	0	7	_aTaixu _d(1889-1947). _2ram
650		7	_aRenouveau du bouddhisme _zChine. _2ram
650		7	_aMonachisme et ordres religieux bouddhiques _zChine _y20 siècle. _2ram
651		7	_aChine _xHistoire religieuse _y20è siècle. _2ram
651		7	_aChine _xVie intellectuelle _y1912-1949. _2ram
651		7	_aBouddhisme _zChine _xHistoire _y20e siècle. _2ram
651		7	_aMoines bouddhistes _zChine _y20e siècle. _2ram
651		7	_aPhilosophie bouddhique _zChine. _2ram
600	0	4	_aTai-hsü, _d1889-1947.
600	0	7	_aTaixu, _d1889-1947. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00174454
650		7	_aBuddhist renewal. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00840273
651		7	_aChina. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01206073
650		7	_aRELIGION / Comparative Religion _2bisacsh
655		4	_aElectronic books.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aPittman, Don Alvin, 1948- _tToward a modern Chinese Buddhism _z9780824822316 _w(DLC) 00061603 _w(OCoLC)44727904
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