Inner worlds : individuals and interiority in Chinese religious life / edited by Benjamin Brose, James A. Benn.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brose, Benjamin, editor.

Benn, James A., 1964- editor.

Series:

Studies on East Asian religions ; v. 14.

Studies on East Asian religions, 2452-0098 ; volume 14

Standardized Title:

Inner worlds (Brill Academic Publishers) http://id.loc.gov/resources/hubs/8a1dbf41-3820-6045-78ee-3208a0a9b7f4.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spirituality--China--History.

Spirituality.

Spirituality--History.

China--Religion--History.

China.

Physical Description:

xii, 373 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2025]

Summary:

"How do the inner convictions of individuals clash and sometimes cohere with the ideologies of their times? This volume investigates the interior lives of Chinese religious practitioners from the tenth century to the present to explore their dreams, visions, and personal struggles. The reader will encounter an eminent Buddhist master's Confucian dreams, a Qing court lama's visions of China, and a modern Chan master's memories of his own awakening. The contributors draw on a vast array of sources-poetry, dream records, confessions, instructional talks, and previously unpublished archival documents-to offer a new perspective on the interplay between personal belief and political ideology, between the otherworldly and the mundane. Contributors are: James A. Benn, Ester Bianchi, Raoul Birnbaum, Benjamin Brose, Daniela Campo, Wen-shing Chou, Vincent Goossaert, Ji Zhe, Paul R. Katz, Beverley McGuire, Gray Tuttle, and Wang Jia."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Master Ouyi's filial fears / Beverley McGuire

Master Hongyi’s Confucian Dreams / Raoul Birnbaum

A Qing Court Lama Dreaming His Place in the World / Gray Tuttle

Ven. Miaojing 玅境 and the Recasting of Early Buddhist Meditation in the Modern Sinosphere: Doctrinal Concerns and Personal Motivations / Ester Bianchi

The Inner World of a Self-Immolator? / James A. Benn

Individuals and cross-generational bonds in eighteenth-century Gelukpa Buddhism / Wen-shing Chou

Laiguo Miaoshu: the Making of a Modern Chan Master / Benjamin Brose

Disclosing the Self: Buddhist Instructions (kaishi 開示) and Religious Autobiography in Twentieth-Century China / Daniela Campo

Good Death, Suicide, and Divinization among Nineteenth-Century Chinese Scholars / Vincent Goossaert

“Opening the Heart to the Party”: Zhibei during the Socialist Education Movement (1962–1965) / Ji Zhe and Wang Jia

Imperfect unions? Buddhicized weddings in modern Chinese religious life / Paul R. Katz.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version Inner worlds

ISBN:

9789004725461

9004725466

OCLC:

1511408346

Publisher Number:

90103220200

CIPO000270470