The Huayan University network : the teaching and practice of Avataṃsaka Buddhism in twentieth-century China / Erik J. Hammerstrom.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hammerstrom, Erik J., author.

Series:

Sheng Yen series in Chinese Buddhist studies.

Sheng Yen series in Chinese Buddhist studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Hua yan Buddhism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (196 pages).

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2020]

Summary:

In the early twentieth century, Chinese Buddhists sought to strengthen their tradition through publications, institution building, and initiatives aimed at raising the educational level of the monastic community. In The Huayan University Network, Erik J. Hammerstrom examines how Huayan Buddhism was imagined, taught, and practiced during this time of profound political and social change and, in so doing, recasts the history of twentieth-century Chinese Buddhism.Hammerstrom traces the influence of Huayan University, the first Buddhist monastic school founded after the fall of the imperial system in China. Although the university lasted only a few years, its graduates of went on to establish a number of Huayan-centered educational programs throughout China. While they did not create a new sectarian Huayan movement, they did form a network unified by a common educational heritage that persists to the present day. Drawing on an extensive range of Buddhist texts and periodicals, Hammerstrom shows that Huayan had a significant impact on Chinese Buddhist thought and practice and that the history of Huayan complicates narratives of twentieth-century Buddhist modernization and revival. Offering a wide range of insights into the teaching and practice of Huayan in Republican China, this book sheds new light on an essential but often overlooked element of the East Asian Buddhist tradition.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Introduction

One. Huayan as a School of Chinese Buddhism

Two. The Huayan Universities

Three. Second-and Third-Generation Programs

Four. The Huayan University Network After 1949

Five. Huayan Doctrine in Republican China

Six. A Common Curriculum

Conclusion

List of Chinese Characters

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-231-55075-8

OCLC:

1154101063