Jiang Wu
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- May 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780195333572
- eISBN:
- 9780199868872
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195333572.003.0004
- Subject:
- Religion, Buddhism
This chapter explores how Confucian literati, especially Wang Yangming's followers, helped to reshape Chan communities through their reinterpretation of Chan teaching. The focus of this chapter is ...
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This chapter explores how Confucian literati, especially Wang Yangming's followers, helped to reshape Chan communities through their reinterpretation of Chan teaching. The focus of this chapter is literati's textual spirituality and textual practice such as reading and writing Chan literature. It shows that Chan Buddhism first grew from the pro‐Chan literati culture and was promoted by the literati. Later, this intellectual movement influenced the monastic world and introduced Chan masters to Eastern Zhejiang.Less
This chapter explores how Confucian literati, especially Wang Yangming's followers, helped to reshape Chan communities through their reinterpretation of Chan teaching. The focus of this chapter is literati's textual spirituality and textual practice such as reading and writing Chan literature. It shows that Chan Buddhism first grew from the pro‐Chan literati culture and was promoted by the literati. Later, this intellectual movement influenced the monastic world and introduced Chan masters to Eastern Zhejiang.
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780804758086
- eISBN:
- 9780804786782
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804758086.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, Asian History
This chapter is concerned with the dynastic crisis of the seventeenth century. It deals with how the fall of the Ming in 1644 and the subsequent Manchu conquest transformed the ways in which the ...
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This chapter is concerned with the dynastic crisis of the seventeenth century. It deals with how the fall of the Ming in 1644 and the subsequent Manchu conquest transformed the ways in which the elite interpreted the faithful maiden act and constructed a special relationship between Confucian literati and the faithful maiden cult. Dramatic details were common in writings about faithful maidens. The faithful maidens who committed (or attempted to commit) suicide took center stage. The Snow-White Chinese flowering apple incident, the Song Dian incident, and the Wang Xiuwen saga are examples of this. The immense interest of the early Qing literati in promoting faithful maidens was deeply embedded in intense emotions over the political crisis of the Ming–Qing transition.Less
This chapter is concerned with the dynastic crisis of the seventeenth century. It deals with how the fall of the Ming in 1644 and the subsequent Manchu conquest transformed the ways in which the elite interpreted the faithful maiden act and constructed a special relationship between Confucian literati and the faithful maiden cult. Dramatic details were common in writings about faithful maidens. The faithful maidens who committed (or attempted to commit) suicide took center stage. The Snow-White Chinese flowering apple incident, the Song Dian incident, and the Wang Xiuwen saga are examples of this. The immense interest of the early Qing literati in promoting faithful maidens was deeply embedded in intense emotions over the political crisis of the Ming–Qing transition.
