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Religion as a Binding Force in Urban Society: The 1313–1314 Restoration of the Travelling Palace of the Eastern Marchmount in Changxing Prefecture (Zhejiang) |
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Ter Haar, Barend J. (著)
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Hualin International Journal of Buddhist Studies
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| Volume | v.6 n.2 Special Issue |
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| Date | 2023.10 |
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| Pages | 111 - 158 |
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| Publisher | Cambria Press |
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http://www.cambriapress.com/
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| Location | New York, US [紐約州, 美國] |
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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 | 1. Special Issue: Religion and Local Society.
2. Author Affiliation: University of Hamburg, Germany. |
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| Keyword | inscriptions; Dongyue 東嶽; White Cloud Tradition (Baiyun zong 白雲宗); guilds; Buddhism; Daoism; Changxing 長興 |
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| Abstract | Since Tim Brook’s Praying for Power (1993) we have come to appreciate the ongoing power of Buddhist religious tradition on all social levels, with the late Ming revival of a remarkably strong link between socio-educational elites and Lower Yangzi region Buddhist monasteries as one particularly clear example. Nonetheless, there are also differences or what we might call roads not taken. While elites connected to local monasteries in more ways than one, by the 1600s these monasteries did not organise society in the same way as local temple networks did. We might not expect this in the first place, but epigraphical evidence and colophons to Buddhist sūtras, for instance, demonstrate that in various places in Song-Jin-Yuan China Buddhist traditions were an important social force that far transcended doctrinal boundaries. In this contribution I analyse an inscription from the year 1314 as an example of the role of some Buddhist monasteries in structuring local society, from local officials and local militia to local guilds and traders. Apparently, something did get lost between the late Yuan and late Ming periods, even if the power of Buddhist ritual and devotional practices certainly continued to exert a strong appeal, whether connected to monasteries or new religious groups or otherwise. |
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| Table of contents | Abstract 111
Keywords 112
Preliminary Remarks 112
The Cult of the Dongyue xinggong 115
The Organisation 121
Erecting a Stone Stele with Inscription 125
The Donors and their Motivations 131
The Land Donations 144
Final Observations 149
Bibliography 153
Abbreviations 153
Primary Sources 153
Secondary Sources 154 |
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| ISSN | 25762923 (P); 25762931 (E) |
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| DOI | 10.15239/hijbs.06.02.05 |
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| Hits | 88 |
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| Created date | 2024.08.23 |
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| Modified date | 2024.08.28 |
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