Toward a Modern Chinese Buddhism Taixu's Reforms
A realist who acknowledged the complexities of the human condition in an increasingly interdependent and violent world, Taixu was also a utopian who tried to imagine how Buddhists could begin to realize their ultimate ideals—ideals that in fact lay beyond the preservation of institutional Buddhism i...
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| Format: | Elektronisch E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Honolulu
University of Hawaii Press
[2001]
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| Zusammenfassung: | A realist who acknowledged the complexities of the human condition in an increasingly interdependent and violent world, Taixu was also a utopian who tried to imagine how Buddhists could begin to realize their ultimate ideals—ideals that in fact lay beyond the preservation of institutional Buddhism itself.Students of Buddhism, Chinese religion, contemporary Chinese history and culture, and Taiwan studies will welcome this study of a crucially important and intriguingly complex individual whose life encapsulates many of the forces and possibilities apparent within Chinese Buddhism in the contemporary world |
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| Beschreibung: | Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 19. Jan 2018) |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource |
| ISBN: | 9780824865269 |