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

Bianchi, Ester

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«Intento generale della pratica della ‘dhyāna pāramitā’» Primo libro del Shi chan boluomi cidi famen 釋禪波羅蜜次第法門 di Zhiyi 智顗

Bianchi

2022

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The kan huatou (inspecting the critical phrase) method of meditation represents one of many examples of the sinicization of Buddhism. Formulated and popularised by the Song dynasty master Dahui Zonggao 大慧宗杲 (1089-1163), it spread to Japan, Vietnam and Korea and today represents the most popular form of Chan meditation practice in mainland China. This chapter provides some background on the history and function of this method. It especially includes a translation of the religious instructions delivered by Chan master Laiguo 來果 (1881-1953) during one meditation session at Gaomin Monastery in 1942. Characterized by an incisive, vernacular style, Laiguo’s oral instructions attest to the continuity of both the kan huatou method and the linguistic and literary strategies of the Chan school in contemporary China.

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«Intento generale della pratica della ‘dhyāna pāramitā’» Primo libro del Shi chan boluomi cidi famen 釋禪波羅蜜次第法門 di Zhiyi 智顗

Bianchi

2022

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Reading Equality into Asymmetry: Dual Ordination in the Eyes of Modern Chinese Bhikṣuṇīs

Bianchi

2022

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The “Dual Ordination” (erbuseng jie 二部僧戒) is a Vinaya-based ordination procedure introduced to China from Śrī Laṅkā in the fifth century; in the late imperial period it came to be included in the main ordination system. It stipulates that full ordination for nuns is to be carried out first in front of an assembly of bhikṣuṇīs and then another assembly of bhikṣus. However, contrary to this stipulation, ordinations have mainly been conferred to women by bhikṣus alone in China since the tenth century. The Dual Ordination procedures became a topic of discussion during the Republic of China (1911–1949) with the result that it was eventually reintroduced on the Mainland at the beginning of the 1980s, mainly due to the efforts of bhikṣuṇīs Longlian 隆蓮 (1909–2006) and Tongyuan 通願 (1913–1991). The article traces the roots of the restoration of Dual Ordinations during the Republican era and provides an account of their history since the 1980s. Finally, Longlian’s views about bhikṣuṇī ordination are discussed. The objective is to probe the historical and ideological context for the reestablishment of this ordination system in modern and contemporary China, which ultimately strengthened the role and position of Chinese bhikṣuṇīs.

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Lady White Bone: The Making of a Monstress

2023

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Lady White Bone, a demon from the sixteenth-century novel Journey to the West (Xiyou ji 西遊記), has grown into one of the most celebrated femme fatales in popular imagination. This paper explores the formation of this monster as a gendered skeleton and its association with the dead body. Contextualizing this character in a broadly defined genre of skeleton fantasy, I investigate her lineage in a textual network of literature and religion, focusing on zhiguai 志怪 (accounts of anomalies) short stories and the Buddhist meditation “White Bone Contemplation” (baigu guan 白骨觀), which in turn, leads to the notion of “beauty is white bone” (meiren baigu 美人白骨), a highly gendered rendering of the Buddhist notion “form is void” (se ji shi kong 色即是空). To study the creation and development of this dazzling undead is to examine how women are posed as danger in various traditions, and to understand how this character continues to fascinate readers and viewers centuries after its creation.

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

Cited by 3 publications

References 18 publications

«Intento generale della pratica della ‘dhyāna pāramitā’» Primo libro del Shi chan boluomi cidi famen 釋禪波羅蜜次第法門 di Zhiyi 智顗

«Intento generale della pratica della ‘dhyāna pāramitā’» Primo libro del Shi chan boluomi cidi famen 釋禪波羅蜜次第法門 di Zhiyi 智顗

Reading Equality into Asymmetry: Dual Ordination in the Eyes of Modern Chinese Bhikṣuṇīs

Lady White Bone: The Making of a Monstress

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