Research Explorer

Project

Chinese Buddhism and society in the first 40 years of the 20th century
Code
01SC0120
Duration
01 October 2020 → 30 September 2024
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Research disciplines
  • Humanities and the arts
    • Gender studies
    • Literatures in Chinese
    • Philosophy of humanities
    • Philosophy of religion
    • Study of Buddhism
Keywords
Chinese Buddhism Buddhist magazines National renaissance Chinese society
 
Project description
 

In the early twentieth century of China, Buddhism was integrated in economic, political and cultural developments. On the basis of Chinese Buddhist magazines, a research into the function of Buddhism in China’s society and national renaissance can answer the basic question of how the social position of Buddhism developed in the first forty years of the twentieth century.