Original Buddhism and Its Discontents: the Chinese Buddhist Exchange Monks and the Search for the Pure Dharma in Ceylon

Ritzinger, Justin R.

doi:10.1080/0737769x.2016.1165442

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“…In 1998, for example, Master Wuqian, in collaboration with the Foguangshan organization in Taiwan, organized a pilgrimage for about 1200 lay Buddhists and 300 monks and nuns to Bodhgaya. Master Wuqian from India, Master Yongxing 永惺 (1926-2016 from Hong Kong, the President of the Hong Kong Buddhist Association, and Master Xingyun 星雲 (1927-2023) from Taiwan, the founding abbot of the Foguangshan order, presided over the activities of these participants. In her study on Taiwanese nuns, Li Yuzhen documented Wuqian's participation in the full ordination ceremony in Bodhgaya.…”

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The Transnational Experience of a Chinese Buddhist Master in the Asian Buddhist Network

Zhang

2023

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Wuqian (1922–2010) was one of the most important modern Buddhist masters in the modern history of Sino-Indian Buddhist relations. In his early years, he studied all the major schools of the Buddhist tradition, focusing on Yogācāra philosophy, probably due to Xuanzang’s influence and in alignment with contemporary Buddhist trends. Furthermore, he became one of the few masters from the Central Plains who received systematic training in Tibetan Buddhist tantric rituals. He went to India in the middle of the 20th century. He dedicated his life to the revival of Buddhist thought in India, especially promoting Chinese Buddhism in Calcutta by establishing Buddhist institutions, managing Buddhist sites, organizing Buddhist activities, and building the Xuanzang Temple. In his later years, he devoted himself to facilitating mutual Buddhist exchanges and monastic visits between Buddhist organizations in mainland China, Taiwan, and India. In 1998, he presented two Buddhist relics to the Daci’en Temple in Xi’an. At the beginning of the 21st century, he established the Institute of Buddhist Studies at Xuanzang Temple in Calcutta. He organized the translation of many important Buddhist treatises, again reflecting his intention of following the spirit of Xuanzang to contribute to Chinese Buddhism. His transnational journey manifested that there was an active Asian Buddhist network during the Cold War era, despite various difficulties.

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The Transnational Experience of a Chinese Buddhist Master in the Asian Buddhist Network

Zhang

2023

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“…For the interest in early Indian Buddhism and the study of the Āgamas in Republican China, see Travagnin 2018; Travagnin and Anālayo 2020. For the Chinese debate on "original Buddhism" (yuanshi fojiao 原始佛教), and the implications of this notion on Buddhist practices and intellectual developments, seeRitzinger 2016; Travagnin and Anālayo 2020. 20 See, for instance,Changxing 1930, 39-45, especially the first two sections of the speech, the first one titled "He wei mixin 何謂迷信," and the second one "He wei fofa 何謂佛法."…”

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The (New) Buddhist Semantics of xin 信 in the First Half of the Twentieth Century: Arguments from China and Taiwan

Travagnin¹

2023

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“…On the focus on meditation, see McMahan and Braun (2017). On the spread of the notion of 'original Buddhism' in Republican China, see Ritzinger (2016). 63 不淨觀,在大小乘經律論,皆有詳論 (Tanxuan, 1936, p. 43).…”

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Revisiting Impurity in Republican China: An Evaluation of the Modern Rediscovery of Bujing guan 不淨觀

Bianchi

2021

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During the era of the Republic of China, a number of Buddhists rediscovered early meditation techniques. These practices were mainly revived from canonical scriptures, following a modern text-based approach to Buddhism. Within this framework, specific attention was devoted to the ‘visualization of the impure’ (bujing guan 不淨觀, Sk. aśubhabhāvanā), particularly in the form of the visualization of one’s own body transforming into a putrefying corpse and skeleton. Masters with various backgrounds (Modernist Buddhists, Yogācāra scholars, Tiantai 天台 and tantric masters) wrote articles and guides on this practice, which had the advantage of being common to both Hīnayāna/Śrāvakayāna and Mahāyāna. This study considers a selection of modern texts on bujing guan in an attempt to uncover why the meditation on impurity was favored and how it was revived.

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Original Buddhism and Its Discontents: the Chinese Buddhist Exchange Monks and the Search for the Pure Dharma in Ceylon

Cited by 6 publications

References 7 publications

The Transnational Experience of a Chinese Buddhist Master in the Asian Buddhist Network

The Transnational Experience of a Chinese Buddhist Master in the Asian Buddhist Network

The (New) Buddhist Semantics of xin 信 in the First Half of the Twentieth Century: Arguments from China and Taiwan

Revisiting Impurity in Republican China: An Evaluation of the Modern Rediscovery of Bujing guan 不淨觀

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