reinventing the cult of Maitreya in modern Chinese Buddhism /
First Statement of Responsibility
by Justin R. Ritzinger.
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Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York, NY :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Oxford University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2017.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
1 online resource
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Cover; Anarchy in the Pure Land; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations and Conventions; Introduction: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maitreya?; Contrasting Impressions; The Push to Modernization: A Historiographic Survey; Taixu and the Reform Movement in Republican China; The Pull of Modernity: An Alternative Approach; Buddhism, Radicalism, and the Framework of Revolutionary Utopianism; The Many Faces of Maitreya; Sources, Structure, and Significance; Part I: Taixu's Buddhist Radicalism; 1. Portrait of the Master as a Young Anarchist; Introduction.
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A World Breaking OpenTaixu's Years of Living Dangerously; Conclusion; 2. Disorienting Frameworks; Introduction; Anarcho-socialist and Buddhist Values in Taixu's Radical Thought; Conclusion; Part II: The Cult of Maitreya; 3. A New Cult for New Buddhists; Introduction; Maitreya's (Ivory) Tower: Laying the Foundation in the May 4th Era; Budai in the Marketplace: Expansion and Articulation in the Nanjing Decade; Conclusion; 4. Bodhisattva of Progress; Introduction; The Three Essentials; Conclusion; Part III: Worlds Closing and Opening; 5. Future Interrupted; Introduction; War and Its Aftermath
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Maitreya in ExileConclusion; 6. Reawakening Maitreya: Legacies Orthodox and Heterodox; Introduction; Openings: The Cult of Maitreya in the PRC; Openness: The Cult of Maitreya in Taiwan; Heterodox Legacies: Yiguan Dao and Maitreya Great Way; Conclusion; Conclusion: Remembrances of Futures Past; Appendix A. Taixu's Lectures on Maitreyan Texts and Topics to 1937; Appendix B. Articles on the Maitreya School, 1922-1937; Appendix C. Timeline of the Maitreya School and Related Events; Bibliography; Index
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Anarchy in the Pure Land shows that the modern Chinese reinvention of cult of Maitreya, the future Buddha, functioned as an important site for articulating a Buddhist vision of modernity.
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International Standard Book Number
9780190491161
PERSONAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Taixu,1889-1947.
Taixu,1889-1947.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Buddhist modernism-- China-- History-- 20th century.