Format:
1 Online-Ressource (181 pages)
ISBN:
9781527564466
,
1527562859
Content:
In the thirteenth century, King-Monk Trần Nhân Tông founded the Trúc Lâm Thiền (Chan/Zen) sect. During the Golden Age in Vietnamese Buddhist history, the sect flourished under three patriarchs with renowned Thiền masters. Unfortunately, the Trúc Lâm sect faded over the following centuries, and Thiền Buddhism in Vietnam, for the most part, disappeared.In the late twentieth century, a growing new religious movement led by Thích Thanh Từ, a Pure Land monk, called for a restoration of Trúc Lâm Thiền Buddhism. Who is Thích Thanh Từ? How and why did he choose to revive this particular sect and its emancipation practices? Trúc Lâm currently boasts hundreds of monasteries and thousands of monks and nuns in Vietnam and beyond, but how have the forces of modernity influenced its original traditions?Through existing literature and extensive onsite fieldwork, this book analyzes the history and revival of a forgotten Buddhist sect and examines the movement's reform.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781527562851
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Nguyen, Laura Thuy-Loan Truc Lam Buddhism in Vietnam Newcaste upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021 ISBN 9781527562851
Language:
English
Keywords:
Vietnam
;
Trúc Lâm
;
Geschichte
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