Buddhist Responses to Christianity in Postwar Taiwan: Awakening the World

Cover
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
A Note on Romanization and Translations
Preface
Introduction
	Chinese Buddhism and identity
	The three teachings
	Buddhism and Christianity in China
	New intellectual and political responses
	Enter the KMT
	Modernity, and “KMT modernity”
	Taixu
	Overview of the study
1. Buddhism and Patriotism
	Taiwan’s Political Context
	Buddhism and KMT Values
	Awakening the world
	Conclusion
2. Buddhism and Chinese Culture
	Cultural renaissance
	From Moses to Marx
	“Slave society”
	East of Eden
	The genesis of a new approach
	The study of Buddhism
	Conclusion
3. Buddhism and Modernity
	Pointing at the moon
	Open letters to Du
	The science of Sakyamuni
	God and Gotama
	Yinshun’s sources
	Conclusion
4. Decline and Revitalization
	Perceiving the decline
	History as polemic
	From the temple to the ivory tower
	Conclusion
5. Sermons Among Mountains
	Dharma Drum Mountain
	Tzu Chi
	Buddha-Light Mountain
	Lingjiu Shan and Zhongtai Chansi
	Conclusion
Conclusion
	Religious inter-connectivity
	Interfaith competition in Taiwan after 1949
	KMT modernity
	Interfaith competition and identity
List of Chinese Characters
Bibliography
Index