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The Establishment of a Lay Clergy by the Modern Chan Society: Some Logics in the Field of Modern Chinese Buddhism |
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Ji, Zhe (著)
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Liddell, Philip (譯)
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China Perspectives
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| Volume | n.59 |
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| Date | 2005.05-06 |
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| Pages | 56 - 65 |
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| Publisher | French Centre for Research on Contemporary China |
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http://www.cefc.com.hk
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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 | Translated from the French original by Philip Liddell.
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| Abstract | Founded in Taiwan in 1989, the Modern Chan Society was a community of lay Buddhists that challenged monks’ religious privileges and put forward the idea of 7equality between monks and lay believers. It asserted an independent authority from that of the monasteries in managing “salvation goods” and accordingly recruited its own clergy. In tracing the history of the Modern Chan Society, this article assesses some logics at work in the filed of Chinese Buddhism: it concerns the role of the prophet in symbolic power, the conditions governing the emergence of a prophet, the legitimization of religious reforms in modern practice and the paradox of institutionalisation. |
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| Table of contents | Li Yuansong, founder of the Modern Chan Society, an exemplary prophet 57
Li Yuansong's criticism of the traditional Buddhist world 58
The doctrine of Modern Chan 59
The grouping of the Modern Chan Society: the creation of a lay Sangha 60
Sangha of Bodhisattvas: the ideal identity of the Modern Chan Society 60
The structure of the clergy of the Modern Chan Society 61
The development of the organisation 62
The Modern Chan Society sounds the retreat 62
Some logisc in the filed of modern Chinese Buddhism 63
A clergy of lay Buddhists cannot exist without a prophet endowed with the virtue of saintliness 64
In Chinese Buddhism, Chan is a favourable school for the emergence of a prophet 64
Modern secular valurs can legitimise religious innovation 64
The new religious community confronted bu the paradox of institutionalisation 65 |
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| ISSN | 20703449 (P); 19964617 (E) |
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| Created date | 2023.11.14 |
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| Modified date | 2023.11.15 |
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