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Chinese Buddhism and the Anti-Japan War |
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Sueki, Fumihiko (著)=末木文美士 (au.)
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Japanese Journal of Religious Studies
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| Volume | v.37 n.1 |
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| Date | 2010 |
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| Pages | 9 - 20 |
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| Publisher | Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture=南山宗教文化研究所 |
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http://nirc.nanzan-u.ac.jp/en/
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| Location | 名古屋, 日本 [Nagoya, Japan] |
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| Content type | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Note | Special issue: Religion and the Japanese Empire; Author: A professor at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken), Kyoto. |
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| Keyword | modern Chinese Buddhism; Taixu; Leguan; the anti-Japan war |
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| Abstract | This article examines the attitudes and responses of Chinese Buddhists with
regard to the Sino-Japanese war of the 1930s and 1940s by focusing on two
figures, Taixu and Leguan. Both the Japanese and Chinese Buddhists were
confronted with the same problems, such as the relation between the universalism of Buddhism and the question of nationalism, as well as the tension between the Buddhist prohibition against killing and the necessity of killing one’s enemies during wartime. Taixu attempted to radically change Chinese Buddhism and establish a humanistic Buddhism. Leguan at first had a positive view of Japanese Buddhism and saw it as a possible model for modernizing Buddhism in China, but later became very critical of Japanese Buddhism and encouraged taking action against the Japanese invasion. Both struggled with the difficult problem of whether it was proper for a Buddhist to actively take up arms and fight in a war for their nation. Placing Japanese Buddhism in the wider perspective of East Asia, and such comparisons with Chinese (and Korean) Buddhists, should provide fruitful hints for rethinking modern Japanese Buddhism. |
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| ISSN | 03041042 (P) |
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| Hits | 1723 |
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| Created date | 2010.08.12 |
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| Modified date | 2017.09.07 |
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