Tantrism, Modernity, History: On LÃ¼ Chengâs Philological Method

Martino Dibeltulo Concu

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Tantrism (Ch.Â Mijiao å¯æ) is regarded by some as the alien element of magic, ritual, and worship that corrupted Buddhism in India. It is regarded by others as a highly sophisticated vehicle named VajrayÄna. Both views came into play as Tantrism became the focus of Chinese scholars during the Republican period (1912â1949), during which time such famous figures as Taixu å¤ªè took a special interest in the tantric traditions of contemporary Tibet and Japan. However, the forms of Tantrism that once flourished in ancient India and China, and to which those of Tibet and Japan can be traced, also came under scrutiny. Prior to the First World War, Chinese scholars had not been drawn into the binary that viewed Tantrism in China, Japan, and Tibet as either an aberration of original Buddhism or as a separate and supreme vehicle that is its culmination. Between the world wars, however, and in the wake of what Holmes Welch has called the revival of Tantrism in China, the problem of Tibetâs Buddhism as a form of Tantrism, and of its historical relationship to the Tantrism of China and Japan, presented a dilemma to Chinese scholars. To understand what was at stake in this dilemma, this essay offers a genealogy of the term Xizang fojiao è¥¿èä½æ, which is translated as âTibetan Buddhismâ in English. In so doing, it explores two elements that proved central to the study of Buddhism in China between the 1840s and the 1940s: (1) the changing names of Tibetan Buddhism, and (2) the changing meaning of Tantrism in relation to Tibetan Buddhism.

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Sino-Tibetan Buddhism across the Ages

ä¸ç¼ï¼ Studies on East Asian Religions, å·ï¼ 5

ISBN:: 9789004468375

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å°å·åºçæ¥æ:: 12 Aug 2021

Subjects
- Asian Studies
  - China
  - Tibet
  - Religion
- Religious Studies
  - Comparative Religion & Religious Studies
  - Religion in Asia

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Part 1 Early Sino-Tibetan Buddhist Encounters

Part 2 Tibetan Tantra in the Modern World

Part 3 Modern Forms of Sino-Tibetan Hybridity

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