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On "Urban Buddhism" (dushi fojiao 都市佛教)
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Date Issued
2023
Citation
Huang, Weishan (2023 March 25). On "Urban Buddhism" (dushi fojiao 都市佛教). Buddhist Concepts and Phrases in Contemporary China, Hamburg University.
Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
“Dushi fojiao 都市佛教” (Urban Buddhism) is a relatively new
concept among current city Buddhist monasteries and lay
practitioners. In this talk, I will review the recent discourse on a
bottom-up concept and practice, “urban Buddhism,” in the last few
decades, building on monastic narratives, elite narratives, and state
narratives. Adapting to urban Buddhist practice, inevitably, means
adapting to modernity. The talk will also cover the association on
how the term “humanistic Buddhism” has been shifted to “urban
Buddhism” in the long history of Shanghai's local setting about the
normative account of contemporary Buddhism in China.
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