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The Huayan University Network - The Teaching and Practice of Avataṃsaka Buddhism in Twentieth-Century China (Hardcover)
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The Huayan University Network - The Teaching and Practice of Avataṃsaka Buddhism in Twentieth-Century China (Hardcover)
Series: The Sheng Yen Series in Chinese Buddhist Studies
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In the early twentieth century, Chinese Buddhists sought to
strengthen their tradition through publications, institution
building, and initiatives aimed at raising the educational level of
the monastic community. In The Huayan University Network, Erik J.
Hammerstrom examines how Huayan Buddhism was imagined, taught, and
practiced during this time of profound political and social change
and, in so doing, recasts the history of twentieth-century Chinese
Buddhism. Hammerstrom traces the influence of Huayan University,
the first Buddhist monastic school founded after the fall of the
imperial system in China. Although the university lasted only a few
years, its graduates went on to establish a number of
Huayan-centered educational programs throughout China. While they
did not create a new sectarian Huayan movement, they did form a
network unified by a common educational heritage that persists to
the present day. Drawing on an extensive range of Buddhist texts
and periodicals, Hammerstrom shows that Huayan had a significant
impact on Chinese Buddhist thought and practice and that the
history of Huayan complicates narratives of twentieth-century
Buddhist modernization and revival. Offering a wide range of
insights into the teaching and practice of Huayan in Republican
China, this book sheds new light on an essential but often
overlooked element of the East Asian Buddhist tradition.
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