Buddhism under Mao shows what kind of a problem Buddhism presented
to the Chinese Communists and how they solved it. Relying largely
on materials from the Mainland press, Holmes Welch has made what is
probably the most detailed study so far available of the fate of a
world religion in a Communist country. He describes how Buddhist
institutions were controlled, protected, utilized, and suppressed;
and explains why the larger needs of foreign and domestic policy
dictated the Communists' approach to the institutions. Over eighty
photographs illustrate the activities of monks, laymen, and foreign
visitors. Welch worked for over a decade on the trilogy here
completed. The preceding volumes, The Practice of Chinese Buddhism,
1900-1950 and The Buddhist Revival in China, dealt with Buddhism in
the years before the Communist victory. Buddhism under Mao ends
with a discussion of the possibility of the survival of certain
elements of Buddhism in new forms.
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