The Open Buddhist UniversityJan 18

📰 Conveying Marble Buddhas from Burma to China, 1890s-1930s (A free, 22-page article from 2023)

Tags: #RepublicanChina #Globalization #Buddhastatue #Modern
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/articles/reimagining-buddhist-cosmopolis_deng-beiyin

Reimagining a Buddhist Cosmopolis: Conveying Marble Buddhas from Burma to China, 1890s-1930s

It examines how the fascination with marble, which is vernacularly categorized as ‘white jade’ in Chinese, motivated such endeavors and how these icons shaped the perception of a developing Buddhist cosmopolis among Chinese Buddhists by helping them locate Burma in the Buddhist world in a spiritually and materially meaningful way.

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The Open Buddhist UniversityJan 15

📰 Lü Cheng, Aesthetic Revolution, and the Rise of a Buddhism-Inflected Social Ontology in Modern China (A free, 27-page article from 2021)

Tags: #RepublicanChina #Yogacara #China #Modern #Philosophy
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/articles/spiritual-evolutionism_zu-jessica

A Spiritual Evolutionism: Lü Cheng, Aesthetic Revolution, and the Rise of a Buddhism-Inflected Social Ontology in Modern China

This study examines the early career of the renowned Buddhologist Lü Cheng as an aspiring revolutionary. My findings reveal that Lü’s rhetoric of “aesthetic revolution” both catapulted him into the center of the New Culture Movement and popularized a Buddhist idealism—Yogācāra—among thinkers who sought alternative social theories.

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