The Application of Traditional Rules of Purity (Qinggui) in Contemporary Taiwanese Monasteries

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ID11468594
AuthorsTzu-Lung Chiu (0000-0002-4076-9290, Max Planck Institute for Political and Social Science, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume36
Issue2
Pages249-277
Publication date2020-03-19
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueBuddhist Studies Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0265-2897 • E-ISSN: 1747-9681
PublisherEquinox Publishing (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1558/bsr.39351
OpenAlexW4240042840
LanguageEN
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Vinaya rules embody the ideal of how Buddhists should regulate their daily lives, and monastics are required to observe them, despite the fact that they were compiled nearly 2,500 years ago in India: a context dramatically different not only from Chinese Buddhism's present monastic conditions, but from its historical conditions. Against this backdrop, rules of purity (qinggui) were gradually formulated by Chinese masters in medieval times to supplement and adapt vinaya rules to China's cultural ethos and to specific local Chinese contexts. This study explores how the traditional qinggui are applied by the Buddhist sa?gha in present-day Taiwan, and contrasts modern monastics' opinions on these rules and their relation to early Buddhist vinaya, on the one hand, against classical Chan literature (such as Chanyuan qinggui) and the Buddhist canon (such as Dharmaguptakavinaya), on the other. This comparison fills a notable gap in the existing literature

Aesthetics · Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Buddhism · China · Chinese buddhism · Epistemology · Ethos · Linguistics · Literature · Sociology · Chinese history and philosophy · Computer Science · History · Japanese History and Culture · Philosophy · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies

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