Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University and Harvard-Yenching Institute
出版地
Cambridge, MA, US [劍橋, 麻薩諸塞州, 美國]
叢書名
Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series
叢書號
38
資料類型
書籍=Book
使用語言
英文=English
附註項
Distributed by Harvard University Press
關鍵詞
Buddhism; Social aspects; China; Gentry; Ming; Power
摘要
In seventeenth- and eighteenth-century China, Buddhists and Confucians alike flooded local Buddhist monasteries with donations. As gentry numbers grew faster than the imperial bureaucracy, traditional Confucian careers were closed to many; but visible philanthropy could publicize elite status outside the state realm. Actively sought by fundraising abbots, such patronage affected institutional Buddhism.
After exploring the relation of Buddhism to Ming Neo-Confucianism, the growth of tourism to Buddhist sites, and the mechanisms and motives for charitable donations, Timothy Brook studies three widely separated and economically dissimilar counties. He draws on rich data in monastic gazetteers to examine the patterns and social consequences of patronage.
目次
The Passionate Life of Zhang Dai 37 Accommodating Buddhism 54 Buddhist Observances and Rituals 96 The Organization of Lay Associations 103 Gentry Uses of Monastic Space 114 The Patrons of Dinghu Mountain 137 How the Gentry Patronized Monasteries 159 Why the Gentry Patronized Monasteries 185 The Zhucheng Gentry 236 Zhucheng Monastic Patronage 242 Dangyang County Hubei 278 The Separation of State and Society 311 Notes 335 Bibliography 373 Index 393
