War, Public Letters, and Piety: The Making of a New Pure Land Patriarch in Modern China
This article traces the rise of a Pure Land movement in twentieth-century China and the canonization of its leader, Monk Yinguang, as a patriarch and an emanation of Bodhisattva Great Power, one of the two bodhisattvas flanking Buddha Amitābha in the Western Pure Land. Although scholars have long re...
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| Language: | English |
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University of Chicago Press
2023
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History of religions
Year: 2023, Volume: 63, Issue: 1, Pages: 75-119 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
China
/ Zen Buddhism
/ Ritual
/ Ancestor cult
/ Song dynasty (960-1279)
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| RelBib Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion BL Buddhism KBM Asia TE Middle Ages |
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