TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ritzinger,Justin
TI  - Anarchy in the pure land: reinventing the cult of Maitreya in modern Chinese Buddhism 
SN  - 9780190491185
AV  - BQ4690.M34 C675 2017
U1  - 294.3/920951 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Taixu,
KW  - Maitreyanātha
KW  - Buddhist modernism
KW  - China
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Maitreya (Divinité bouddhique)
KW  - Culte
KW  - Chine
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 20e siècle
KW  - Modernisme bouddhique
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Buddhism
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Comparative Religion
KW  - fast
KW  - Cults
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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; 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; 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
N2  - 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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