"Take the Vinaya as Your Master"

Ester Bianchi, Ph.D. (2003), University of Venice and École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE), is Associate Professor at Perugia University. She authored The Iron Statue Monastery, Tiexiangsi: A Buddhist Nunnery of Tibetan Tradition in Contemporary China (2001) and a translation of the Gaoseng Faxian zhuan (2013). Daniela Campo, Ph.D. (2011), École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE), is Associate Professor at the University of Strasbourg. She is the author of La construction de la sainteté dans la Chine moderne: la vie du maître bouddhiste Xuyun (2013).

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Notes on Contributors



Introduction



Part 1 Questioning Monastic Identity: Vinaya and Authenticity



1 Vinaya Master Hongyi’s 弘一 Vinaya Problem

 Raoul Birnbaum



2 Retaking the Monastic Precepts: Shanghai Lay Buddhists’ Struggle for the Authenticity of Monkhood in the 1980s

 Zhe Ji 汲喆



Part 2 Adjusting the Vinaya: Ordination Procedures



3 Discipline and Enlightenment: Hanyue Fazang 漢月法藏 (1573–1635) and the Spread of the Triple Platform Ordination Ceremony in Seventeenth-Century China

 Jiang Wu 吳疆



4 Authenticity and Authority: Dual Ordination in Post-war Taiwan

 Yu-chen Li 李玉珍



Part 3 Mahāyāna Vinaya: Bodhisattva Precepts and Chinese Monastic Codes



5 Yogācāra Bodhisattva Precepts in Twentieth Century China: Reevaluating Rules and Commitments in the Light of Modernity

 Ester Bianchi



6 Changing Attitudes to the Precepts in Modern Taiwan: The Debate between Brahmā’s Net Precepts and Yogācāra Precepts

 Pei-ying Lin 林佩瑩



7 Buddhist Monastic Regulations in Contemporary China: Adapting the Rules to a Changing Social and Political Context

 Daniela Campo



Part 4 Vinaya Specifics in the Modern World: Body Movement and Sport Activities



8 Body Movement and Sport Activities: A Buddhist Normative Perspective from India to China

 Ann Heirman and Tzu-Lung Chiu 邱子倫



9 Physical Exercise and Sporting Activities in Contemporary Taiwanese and Mainland Chinese Buddhist Monasteries

 Tzu-Lung Chiu 邱子倫 and Ann Heirman



References

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