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• Books (9)
• Documents (11)
• Audio/Video (12)
• Reference Shelf (1)
• Subtopics (1)

Books (9)

Featured:

• Road to Heaven: Encounters with Chinese Hermits
  ⭐ Recommended
  220 pages

  [recommended but under copyright]

See also:

The (Chinese) Buddhist Liturgy (1993)

Popular Deities of Chinese Buddhism (1985) – Kuan Ming

Common Questions in the Practice of Buddhism (1988) – Master Sheng-Yen

Understanding the Chinese Buddhist Temple (2010) – John Negru

The Meaning of Life (1996) – Master Sheng-Yen

Footprints in the Snow: The Autobiography of a Chinese Buddhist Monk (2008) – Master Sheng-Yen

Orthodox Chinese Buddhism: A Contemporary Chan Master’s Answers to Common Questions (2007) – Master Sheng-Yen

A Primer in Chinese Buddhist Writings (Series) – John Kieschnick

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Documents (11)

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• Buddhist Responses to State Control of Religion in China at the Century’s Turn (2010) – Shi Zhiru
  ⭐ Recommended

  How Buddhism emerged from China’s violent thrust into modernity.

  33 pages

  pdf pdf
• Soundscape Evaluation in Han Chinese Buddhist Temples (2016) – Dongxu Zhang, Mei Zhang, Daping Liu, and Jian Kang

  the average sound levels at the four temples over the course of an entire day were between 47.0 and 52.7 dBA, and approximately 70% of those surveyed tended to evaluate the temples’ soundscapes as comfortable and harmonious. When the sound level of a temple was higher than 60 dBA, respondents were more likely to feel uncomfortable

  10 pages

  pdf pdf

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The Power of Interconnectivity: Tan Sitong’s Invention of Historical Agency in Late Qing China (2009) – Hung-yok Ip

The Ritual of Arhat Invitation during the Song Dynasty: Why did Mahāyānists Venerate the Arhat? (2007) – Ryan Bongseok Joo

Faxian and the Establishment of the Pilgrimage Tradition of Qiufa (Dharma-searching) (2019) – Ji Yun 紀贇

Chinese Buddhist Nuns in the Twentieth Century: A Case Study in Wǔhàn (2009) – Yuan Yuan

Under the Gaze of the Buddha Mega-Statue: Commodification and Humanistic Buddhism at Fo Guang Shan (2020) – Edward Irons

Bodhisattva Precepts and their Comparability with Vinaya in Contemporary Chinese Buddhism (2019) – Tzu-lung Chiu

The Heart Sutra (1996) – Master T'an Hsu

Locality from Hybridization to Integration: Cultural Politics and Space Production of Taiwan Mazu Temples in Mainland China (2022) – Yong Zhou

The Laughing Buddha: Doing business and the art of motivation (2012) – Ang Sik Liong and Low Kim Cheng Patrick

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Audio/Video (12)

Featured:

• Monks In Motion (Interview) (2020) – Jack Meng-Tat Chia

  A short biography of three Chinese Buddhist monks in modern Maritime Southeast Asia.

  69 min

  Online
• Morality and Monastic Revival in Post-Mao Tibet (2019) – Jane Caple

  the problem with tourism as it manifested itself in places like Kumbum was that it was the kind of tourism which might actually give monasteries a very bad reputation, rather than being something productive

  54 min

  Online

See also:

The Ancient Path To Enlightenment (2014) – Da Bei Shan

Ocean of Milk, Ocean of Blood: A Mongolian Monk in the Ruins of the Qing (2019) – Matthew W. King

Drums and Bells (2013) – Qing De Monastery

Educating Monks: Minority Buddhism on China’s Southwest Border (2018) – Thomas Borchert

The Buddha Party: How the People’s Republic of China Works to Define and Control Tibetan Buddhism (2017) – John Powers

Anarchy in the Pure Land (2017) – Justin R. Ritzinger

Chinese Pure Land Buddhism (2019) – Charles B. Jones

The Art of Making Buddha Statues: Cause and Condition (2018) – Dharma Realm Buddhist Association

Buddha Beads (2012) – Master Sheng-Yen

Chinese Pure Land in the Human Realm (2019) – Charles B. Jones

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Reference Shelf (1)

A Bibliography of Translations from the Chinese Buddhist Canon into Western Languages (2001) – Marcus Bingenheimer

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Subtopics (1)

• Chinese Buddhist Writing (Course)