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Revival of Buddhism in Southeast China in the Late Ninth Century: The Case of Shanquan Temple

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Buddhism played an important role in Chinese history after the fourth century and had gradually become part of Chinese culture. However, there are conflicting opinions about the overall trend of Chinese Buddhist development after the Tang Dynasty, especially after the Great Anti-Buddhist Persecution initiated by Emperor Wuzong of Tang. According to the inscriptions of two […]

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How Did The Military Institutions Interact With Local Society In The Ming And Qing Dynasties: A Case Of Yuzhou Guard

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The Ming military institutions played a significant and enduring role in Chinese society from the late imperial period to the present. The garrisons of the Ming are often collectively referred to as Guards and Battalions (weisuo),which were established in the early Ming and eventually abolished in the Qing. The empire-wide institutions had a powerful impact […]

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Event Series The Dharma-Ending Age: The Climate Crisis through the Lens of Buddhist Eschatology, Past and Present

The Dharma-Ending Age: The Climate Crisis through the Lens of Buddhist Eschatology, Past and Present

C. K. Choi Building for the Institute of Asian Research 1855 West Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

The unprecedented number of global crises is casting a shadow on the future of humanity, all of which seem to augur that the dharma-ending age (mofa 末法) described in Buddhist classics is now silently approaching us. At this crossroad, the climate crisis may wield the most immediate impacts for the world. Buddhism may prove to […]

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A Sense of an Ending: Chinese Buddhist Eschatology Reconsidered

C. K. Choi Building for the Institute of Asian Research 1855 West Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

In 1976, Dan Overmyer published Folk Buddhist Religion, a volume that drew attention to apocalyptic visions of some popular groups influenced by Buddhist conceptions, amongst others, of global disaster. This keynote will discuss what has been written in this vein since then, reaction in East Asia to climate change, what have we learned over the […]

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