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Book Review: Monks in Motion: Buddhism and Modernity across the South China Sea by Jack Meng-Tat Chia |
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Hammerstrom, Erik (評論)
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| Source |
History of Religions
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| Volume | v.61 n.2 |
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| Date | 2021.11 |
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| Pages | 238 - 241 |
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| Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
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https://www.press.uchicago.edu/index.html
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| Location | Chicago, IL, US [芝加哥, 伊利諾伊州, 美國] |
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| Content type | 期刊論文=Journal Article; 書評=Book Review |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Note | Monks in Motion: Buddhism and Modernity Across the South China Sea. By Jack Meng-Tat Chia. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 305. $99.00 (cloth). |
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| Abstract | Although it has long had connections beyond the shifting borders of the Chinese state, Chinese Buddhism in the twentieth century was profoundly molded by a dynamic flow of people and ideas that cut across national boundaries. Monks in Motion: Buddhism and Modernity Across the South China Sea adds important nuance to our knowledge of this aspect of Chinese Buddhism, but this is not just a book about how modern Buddhism in China went somewhere else; instead, it begins to tell the story of what Jack Meng-Tat Chia has dubbed “South China Sea Buddhism,” a Buddhism that is “neither an extension of China’s Mahāyāna Buddhism nor Southeast Asia’s Theravāda Buddhism, but a localized form that uses Mandarin Chinese, Southern Chinese dialects, and Southeast Asian languages in their liturgy and scriptures to serve local purposes” (157). This is not a comprehensive history; it focuses on recounting the biographies of three ethnically Chinese monks and the ways their activities impacted Buddhism in maritime Southeast Asia. In so doing, Chia builds a bridge between the flourishing scholarship on mainland Chinese Buddhism in the early twentieth century, and the concerns of Southeast Asian religious historians. |
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| ISSN | 00182710 (P); 15456935 (E) |
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| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1086/716426 |
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| View book details | Monks in Motion: Buddhism and Modernity across the South China Sea. Chia, Jack Meng-tat. Oxford, London, UK [牛津, 倫敦, 英國]: Oxford University Press, 2021.12.24. 275. 9780197613672. (paperback).; 0197613675. (paperback). |
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| Created date | 2023.06.17 |
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| Modified date | 2023.07.26 |
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