Welcome to the Database of Modern Chinese Buddhism |
This is a collaborative project hosted by Dharma Drum Buddhist College that gathers information on topics related to Buddhism in China between 1850 and 1950 CE. We're currently working on 409 articles on various topics. All data on the wiki is licensed under an Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported Creative Commons license.
To begin, try searching for a keyword in the field on the left, or browse one of the main article categories:
Current Featured Article |
| The Wǔchāng Buddhist Seminary 武昌佛學院: Founded by Tàixū 太虛 and others in 1922, this was the first "Buddhist Seminary" 佛學院 so called. It was one of the more important modern Buddhists schools in China in the 1920s, and it trained many of the ordained Buddhist thinkers that rose to prominence in the first half of the 20th century. |
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| Biography Portal Articles on the lives and work of prominent lay and monastic Buddhists | Periodical Portal Summaries of Buddhist periodical publications, dates and places of publication, important editors and contributors |
| Ideological Doctrines, philosophies, controversies and teachings | Chronology Portal Articles covering major events in each year of the period, as well as guides to the era and reign names of different authorities |
| Institution Portal Important institutions, including seminaries, temples, and organizations | Bibliography and Publication Portal Lists of scholarly and primary sources, as well as articles on publishing houses and important publications of the era |
| Geography Portal Articles on Buddhist events and spaces in major cities, provinces, and regions |
| Project Contributors | |
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Erik Hammerstrom 韓光 Website |
Gregory Adam Scott 史瑞戈 Website |
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Marcus Bingenheimer 馬德偉 Website |
Simon Wiles 魏希明 |
The editors of the Database of Modern Chinese Buddhism thank the China and Inner Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies and the Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation for a grant awarded in the summer of 2010 to be used toward the continued expansion of this site. |