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The Buddhist Philanthropist: The Life and Times of Lee Choon Seng

open access: yesReligions, 2022
This article examines the life and times of Lee Choon Seng (李俊承), exploring his role as a prominent lay Buddhist leader in Singapore and the broader Chinese Buddhist world.
Guan Thye Hue   +2 more
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Paramārtha’s Ultimate Truth and the Development of Chinese Buddhism’s Ultimate Truth

open access: yesReligions, 2021
This paper discusses the development of ideas of the ultimate in the thought of Chinese Buddhism in the Northern and Southern Dynasties. The concept of ultimate truth is, along with that of conventional truth, a core concept in Mahāyāna Buddhism.
Sijia Wang, Huanhuan He
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THE CHRISTIAN ELEMENT IN CHINESE BUDDHISM [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Review of Mission, 1916
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Die Seidenstraße. Konnektivität als Motor von „Grobalization“ und „Glocalization“ am Beispiel des chinesischen Buddhismus

open access: yesHistoria.scribere, 2019
The following paper deals with the connectivity of the Silk Roads and how these networks function as a driving force of globalizing phenomena, especially of Grobalization and Glocalization, demonstrated by the example of Chinese Buddhism. It will examine
Clemens Leopold Steinwender
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The Buddhist Interpretation of the Confucianist Concept of Family

open access: yesTávol-keleti Tanulmányok, 2021
Filial piety is one of the cardinal moral values in Confucianism, and has become a keystone in the Chinese social value system, describing and prescribing the proper functioning of human communities at micro (family) and macro (state) levels.
Imre Hamar
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INFLUENCE OF BUDDHISM ON THE EXPANSION OF WRITING IN THE MID SIXTH CENTURY YAMATO

open access: yesВестник Кемеровского государственного университета, 2018
The article features the influence of Buddhism, which appeared in Japan in the first half of the VI century, on the expansion of writing and written culture in Yamato.
D. A. Surowen
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Syncretism, Harmonization, and Mutual Appropriation between Buddhism and Confucianism in Pre-Joseon Korea

open access: yesReligions, 2020
Following the introduction of Buddhism to China, various strategies of accommodation with Chinese culture were developed, all amounting to some form of syncretism with Chinese religions, mainly Confucianism. Buddhism in pre-modern Korea displayed similar
Sem Vermeersch
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How Do Working-Class People in China Comment on Chinese-Language Buddhist Films?

open access: yesReligions, 2022
The dissemination and acceptance of Chinese-language Buddhist films in China have not yet received much attention. This paper takes four Chinese-language Buddhist films as samples to analyze the Buddhist doctrines they contain and how they are reviewed ...
Zhentao Sun
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Shinran as Global Philosopher

open access: yesReligions, 2022
Gutoku Shinran 愚禿親鸞 (1173–1263) is one of Japan’s most creative and influential thinkers. He is the (posthumous) founder of what ultimately became Jōdo Shinshū, better known today as Shin Buddhism, the most widely practiced form of Buddhism in Japan ...
Sarah Mattice
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A Comparative Perspective of “Engaged Buddhism” and “Renjian Fojiao” (“Humanistic Buddhism”) in Chinese Speaking Discourse: Exclusivism, Inclusivism, or Pragmatism?

open access: yesReligions
The two modern concepts, “Engaged Buddhism” and renjian fojiao 人間佛教, with the variety of its English translations (such as “Humanistic Buddhism”), were developed and discussed with and without reference to each other over several decades.
Carsten Krause
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