Toward a Modern Chinese Buddhism: Taixu's Reforms
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| Rating | : | 4.57 (934 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0824822315 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 389 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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This nuanced work is richly documented with quotations from Taixu's own writings and from various Chinese intellectuals and evangelists of the period.. The Venerable Master Taixu (1890-1947) is the most important and controversial Chinese Buddhist reformer of the twentieth century. This 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
"The Buddhist teaching regarding the nature of the universe has nothing of the mystical or mysterious in it" Crazy Fox The oncoming of modernity during the nineteenth century proved every bit as extremely jarring for Buddhism as it did for most religious traditions. This fact is easy to overlook nowadays though as many of the innovative solutions advanced by Buddhist reformers in response have insinuated themselves into common sense notion