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• W3215107103 abstract "Reviewed by: Chinese Buddhism: A Thematic History by Chün-fang Yü John Kieschnick (bio) Chün-fang Yü. Chinese Buddhism: A Thematic History. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2020. vii, 283 pp. Paperback $30.00, isbn 978-08-24-89347-8. In the preface to Chinese Buddhism, Chün-fang Yü, professor emerita with decades of experience in researching and teaching Chinese Buddhism for an American audience, expresses a frustration shared by many who teach undergraduate courses on Buddhism: no monograph-length overview of Chinese Buddhism has been published since 1964 when Kenneth Ch’en’s Buddhism in China: A Historical Survey (Princeton University Press) appeared. Even in the relatively slow-moving field of Buddhist studies, research on Chinese Buddhism has accumulated and advanced significantly in any number of areas since 1964. Chinese Buddhism is hence a long overdue update of Ch’en’s groundbreaking but flawed survey from close to sixty years ago. Eschewing Ch’en’s chronological framework, which led the reader through the history of Chinese Buddhism from the Han to the mid-twentieth century, dynasty by dynasty, Yü opts for a thematic approach. In this way, Yü’s work is also a fresh take on Ch’en’s best book: The Chinese Transformation of Buddhism (Princeton University Press, 1973), which he divided into ethical life, political life, economic life, literary life, and educational and social life, all with a focus on the medieval period. In Yü’s book, only the introduction is chronological—a quick ten-page survey of Indian Buddhism, followed by a dash through major developments in China up to the early fifth century. Subsequent chapters instead treat broad themes: the major sutras and treatises that shaped Chinese Buddhism, cults of Buddhas and bodhisattvas, Buddhist festivals and rituals, the monastic order, Tiantai and Huayan, Chan, Pure Land Buddhism, gender, and finally a return to chronology with a concluding chapter on Buddhism in modern China. Each chapter is followed by a list of five discussion questions and a few suggestions for further reading, all geared toward the undergraduate student. This approach sacrifices the narrative drive of Ch’en’s work, which attempted to tell a grand story of the arrival, domestication, rise, and decline of Buddhism in China. The advantage of Yü’s thematic approach is that it avoids perhaps the greatest fault in Ch’en’s work: his characterization of all of Chinese Buddhism after the ninth century as a tradition in decline. By structuring the book thematically, Yü avoids the erasures that are inevitably a part of charting rise and decline—the assertion of a golden age demands the creation of a tarnished one to lend it luster—and avoids as well the reductionism of the sinicization model that forces a series of questionable decisions on what is Chinese and what Indian (Hu Shih’s “Indianization of China” versus Ch’en’s “Chinese Transformation of Buddhism”). [End Page 213] Yü’s book is easily the best English-language monograph introduction for courses on Chinese Buddhism, but at the same time, it is valuable for what it says about the development of research on Chinese Buddhism in the last fifty years. Deities like the Medicine King Buddha, Dizang, and Guanyin have now each been subjects of monographs, including Yü’s own detailed study of Guanyin.1 The chapter on festivals and rituals is built on the foundation of scholarship scattered over the eighties and nineties. Our understanding of Chinese Buddhist art history has been completely transformed in the past half century by a generation of art historians attuned to both the traditional concerns of art history (dating, style, and taxonomy) and the issues dear to scholars of social history and religious studies (patronage, devotion, ritual, and doctrine). Yü’s chapters, while necessarily far from comprehensive in either coverage or bibliography, nonetheless incorporate the research of dozens of scholars working in various fields. Decades of scholarship on nuns and laywomen contribute to the most successful chapter of the book, “Buddhism and Gender,” which draws vivid examples from the Ming, Qing, and modern periods and, among other arguments, pointedly challenges statements from Wing-tsit Chan in the fifties that the three main reasons a..." @default.
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