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Monks in Motion: Buddhism and Modernity Across the South China Sea
Author Chia, Jack Meng-tat (著)
Date2020.08.20
Pages275
PublisherOxford University Press
Publisher Url https://academic.oup.com/
LocationNew York, NY, US [紐約, 紐約州, 美國]
SeriesAAR Academy Series
Content type書籍=Book
Language英文=English
KeywordChuk Mor; Yen Pei; Ashin Jinarakkhita; South China Sea; Buddhist modernism; Chinese Buddhism; Southeast Asian Buddhism; Indonesia; Malaysia; Singapore
AbstractChinese Buddhists have never remained stationary. They have always been on the move. Why did Buddhist monks migrate from China to Southeast Asia? How did they participate in transregional Buddhist networks across the South China Sea? In Monks in Motion, Jack Meng-Tat Chia tells a story of monastic connectivity across the South China Sea during the twentieth century. Following in the footsteps of three prominent monks—Chuk Mor (1913–2002), Yen Pei (1917–1996), and Ashin Jinarakkhita (1923–2002)—Chia explores the connected history of Buddhist communities in China and maritime Southeast Asia. Monks in Motion is the first book to offer a history of what Chia terms “South China Sea Buddhism,” referring to a Buddhism that emerged from a swirl of correspondence networks, forced exiles, voluntary visits, evangelizing missions, institution-building campaigns, and the organizational efforts of countless Chinese and Chinese diasporic Buddhist monks. Drawing on multilingual research conducted in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, he challenges the conventional categories of “Chinese Buddhism” and “Southeast Asian Buddhism” by focusing on the lesser-known—yet no less significant—Chinese Buddhist communities of maritime Southeast Asia. By crossing the artificial spatial frontier between China and Southeast Asia, Monks in Motion brings Southeast Asia into the study of Chinese Buddhism and Chinese Buddhism into the study of Southeast Asia.
Table of contentsCopyright Page
Dedication
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
A Note on Translation and Transliteration
Maps
Introduction: Toward a History of South China Sea Buddhism
1 Migrants, Monks, and Monasteries
2 Chuk Mor: Scripting Malaysia’s Chinese Buddhism
3 Yen Pei: Humanistic Buddhism in the Chinese Diaspora
4 Ashin Jinarakkhita: Neither Mahāyāna nor Theravāda
Coda: Monks in Motion
End Matter
Appendix A List of Interviewees
Appendix B Complete Works from the Fragrance Incense Studio (Zhuanxiang huashi wenji 篆香畫室文集)
Appendix C Collected Works of Mindful Observation (Diguan quanji 諦觀全集)
Appendix D A Sequel to the [Collected Works of] Mindful Observation (Diguan xuji 諦觀續集)
Appendix E Sacred Scriptures of Indonesian Buddhism (Kitab-Kitab Suci Agama Buddha Indonesia)
Glossary of Chinese Characters
Notes
Bibliography
Index
ISBN9780190090975 (hc); 9780190091002 (eb)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190090975.001.0001
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