| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Taixu, 1889-1947
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Maitreyanātha -- Cult -- China -- History -- 20th century
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| SUBJECT |
Maitreyanātha fast |
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Taixu, 1889-1947 fast |
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Buddhist modernism -- China -- History -- 20th century
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RELIGION -- Buddhism -- History.
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RELIGION -- Comparative Religion.
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Buddhist modernism
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Cults
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China
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780190491185 |
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0190491183 |
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9780190491178 |
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0190491175 |
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