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Chinese Buddhism or Han Buddhism (simplified Chinese: 汉传佛教; traditional Chinese: 漢傳佛教; pinyin: Hànchuán Fójiào; Jyutping: Hon3 Cyun4 Fat6 Gaau3; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Hàn-thoân Hu̍t-kàu) is a Chinese form of Mahayana Buddhism which draws on the Chinese Buddhist canon [1] that includes the indigenous cultural traditions of ...
The early period of Chinese Buddhist history saw efforts to propagate Buddhism, establish institutions and translate Buddhist texts into Chinese. The effort was led by non-Chinese missionaries from India and Central Asia like Kumarajiva and Paramartha well as by great Chinese pilgrims and translators like Xuanzang .
The propagation of Shin Buddhism in China has faced some critiques for cultural, historical and doctrinal reasons. [17]: 40 Cultural critiques point to the fact that Shin Buddhist clerics may marry and eat meat; modern Chinese Shin Buddhist groups, however, tend to follow the norms of celibacy and vegetarianism of Chinese Buddhism.
Taixu (Tai-hsu [1], traditional Chinese: 太虛; simplified Chinese: 太虚; pinyin: Tàixū; Wade–Giles: T'ai Hsü; January 8, 1890 – March 17, 1947) [2] [3] [4] was a Buddhist modernist, activist and thinker who advocated for a reformation and revival of Chinese Buddhism by drawing upon eclectic domestic and foreign sources and ideologies.
Yinguang was born in 1861 as Zhao Shaoyi (Chinese: 赵绍伊) in Shanxi Province, the youngest of three children, to Zhao Bing Gang (Chinese: 赵秉纲).Yinguang suffered from conjunctivitis, and suffered from poor vision in his youth, [1] [2] but after recovering he was put to studying the Confucian classics in order to prepare for Imperial civil service exams.
Nan Huai-Chin (simplified Chinese: 南怀瑾; traditional Chinese: 南懷瑾; pinyin: Nán Huáijǐn) (March 18, 1918 – September 29, 2012) was a Chinese Buddhist monk, religious scholar, and writer. A well-respected spiritual teacher in contemporary China, he was considered by many to be the major force in the revival of Chinese Buddhism. [1]
Buddhist modernism (also referred to as modern Buddhism, [1] modernist Buddhism, [2] Neo-Buddhism, [3] and Protestant Buddhism [4]) are new movements based on modern era reinterpretations of Buddhism. [5] [6] [7] David McMahan states that modernism in Buddhism is similar to those found in other religions.
Buddhism was officially introduced to Japan from China and Korea during the 5th and 6th centuries AD. [22] In addition to developing their own versions of Chinese and Korean traditions (such as Zen, a Japanese form of Chan and Shingon, a form of Chinese Esoteric Buddhism), Japan developed their own indigenous traditions like Tendai, based on the Chinese Tiantai, Nichiren, and Jōdo Shinshū (a ...