ANTH2601 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Thích Nhất Hạnh, Taixu, Dhammapala
12 Dec 2018
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Chinese buddhist reformer was the monk taixu (1890 1947) Further the cause of monastic education that went beyond buddhist studies to include modern subjects like history and psychology. He wanted to promote the cause of buddhism worldwide, especially in re- sponse to the challenge posed by christian missionary expan- sion. These en- deavors were hardly successful, primarily because of the dismal situation in which. China found itself, torn between warlords, nationalists, communists, and japanese aggressors. This chapter sets out to examine the impact of nineteenth- century western scholarship on. This scholarship was called oriental studies in that period, and the term orientalist simply referred to a scholar of eastern cultures . Edward said"s work on what he called orientalism has brought the connection between imperial power and knowl- edge formation into focus. Remains that india was colonized and that therefore religious reform was a crucial part of anti-colonial pro- tonationalism.
