Making saints in modern China / edited by David Ownby, Vincent Goossaert, Ji Zhe.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ownby, David, 1958- editor.

UPSO (University Press Scholarship Online)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Buddhist saints--Biography.

Buddhist saints.

Buddhism--China--History--20th century.

Buddhism.

History.

China.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

polychrome

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Cover; Making Saints inModernChina; Copyright; Contents; Preface; List of Contributors; Introduction; 1. The Charismatic Monk and the Chanting Masses:Master Yinguang and His Pure Land Revival Movement; 2. Zhang Yuanxu:The Making and Unmaking of a Daoist Saint ; 3. Chan Master Xuyun:The Embodiment of an Ideal, The Transmission of a Model; 4. Duan Zhengyuan and the Moral Studies Society:"Religionized Confucianism" during the Republican Period; 5. Two Turns in the Life of Master Hongyi, ABuddhist Monk in Twentieth-century

6. Yiguandao's Patriarch Zhang Tianran:Hagiography, Deification, and Production of Charisma in a Modern Religious Organization7. Sainthood, Science, and Politics:The Life of Li Yujie, Founder of the Tiandijiao; 8. Subtle Erudition and Compassionate Devotion:Longlian, "The Most Outstanding Bhiksuni" in Modern China; 9. Comrade Zhao Puchu:Bodhisattva under the Red Flag; 10. The "New Clothes" of Sainthood in China:The Case of Nan Huaijin; 11. Jingkong:From Universal Saint to Sectarian Saint; 12. Ren Fajiu:ALiving Daoist Immortal in the People's Republic? ; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Oxford Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 23, 2016).

Other Format:

Print version: Making saints in modern China

ISBN:

9780190494575

0190494573

Publisher Number:

40026743140

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