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Anarchy in the Pure Land: Reinventing the Cult of Maitreya in Modern Chinese Buddhism |
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Ritzinger, Justin (著)
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| Date | 2017.07.27 |
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| Pages | 352 |
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| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
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| Publisher Url |
https://academic.oup.com/
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| Location | Oxford, London, UK [牛津, 倫敦, 英國] |
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| Series | Oxford Scholarship Online |
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| Content type | 書籍=Book |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Note | Justin R. Ritzinger is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Miami. He received his PhD in the Study of Religion from Harvard in 2010. |
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| Keyword | Maitreya; Taixu; Humanistic Buddhism; alternative modernities; Charles Taylor; anarchism; China; Taiwan |
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| Abstract | Anarchy in the Pure Land investigates the cult of Maitreya, the future Buddha, promoted by the Chinese Buddhist reform movement spearheaded by Taixu as an avenue through which to consider the formation of alternative modernities. The cult presents an apparent anomaly: It shows precisely the kind of concern for ritual, supernatural beings, and the afterlife that much scholarship contends the reformers rejected in the name of “modernity.” This book shows that rather than a concession to tradition, the reimagining of ideas and practices associated with Maitreya was an important site for formulating a Buddhist vision of modernity. To make sense of this it develops a new perspective on alternative modernities by drawing on Charles Taylor’s notion of moral frameworks, arguing that the cult of Maitreya represents an attempt to articulate a new constellation of values that integrates novel understandings of the good clustered around modern visions of utopia with the central Buddhist value of Buddhahood. Part I traces the roots of this constellation to Taixu’s youthful career as an anarchist. Part II examines its articulation in the “Maitreya School’s” theology and the cult’s development from its inception to World War II. Part III examines its subsequent decline and its contemporary legacy within and beyond orthodox Buddhism. |
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| Table of contents | Front Matter
Copyright Page
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations and Conventions
Introduction: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maitreya?
Part I Taixu’s Buddhist Radicalism
1 Portrait of the Master as a Young Anarchist
2 Disorienting Frameworks
Part II The Cult of Maitreya
3 A New Cult for New Buddhists
4 Bodhisattva of Progress
Part III Worlds Closing and Opening
5 Future Interrupted
6 Reawakening Maitreya: Legacies Orthodox and Heterodox
Conclusion: Remembrances of Futures Past
End Matter
Appendix A Taixu’s Lectures on Maitreyan Texts and Topics to 1937
Appendix B Articles on the Maitreya School, 1922–1937
Appendix C Timeline of the Maitreya School and Related Events
Bibliography
Index |
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| ISBN | 9780190491185 (eb); 9780190491161 (hc) |
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| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190491161.001.0001 |
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| Created date | 2023.06.28 |
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| Modified date | 2023.06.28 |
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