#BOTD: Xu Dishan 許地山 (1893-1941), #Taiwanese scholar and folklorist of Indian and #ChineseReligion, #literature, #Sanskrit, and alumnus of the University of Oxford. Author of the novella Chuntao #春桃. #ModernChina #ChineseReligion #SinoIndianRelations

Diffusion, Polyphony, and Diversity: An Introduction to Religion, Politics, and Identity in Hong Kong since 2014 Abstract. This forum explicates Hong Kong's complex religious and ritual landscape and the ways in which it influences social movements and identity making, in response to large forces of religion and...

The Jiao Festivals #太平清醮 (purification rite) this year received extra attention for its use of bamboo scaffolding and, as we argued in this JAS special forum, popular religions have provided a sense of (political) identity in #hongkong:

#religion #chinesereligion #daoism #ritual #jiaofestival

This mask with #jade eyes was discovered, along with other female statues, at a site called the Goddess Temple. Some scholars think goddess worship was once central to #chinesereligion.

This mask with #jade eyes was discovered, along with other female statues, at a site called the Goddess Temple. Some scholars think goddess worship was once central to #chinesereligion.

Vincent Goossaert, 2022. Making the Gods Speak. The Ritual Production of Revelation in Chinese Religious History.
Harvard University Press.
Features a lot of analysis of spirit-writing.
#chinesereligion #ritual #harvardUP #divine #history #china #research

Tomb brick with a motif of a chariot arriving at a gate from Eastern #HanChina (25-220). An allegory of afterlife? #chinesehistory #chinesereligion #china #history #archeology

#DOTD: Ren Jiyu 任繼愈 (1916–2009), one of the most influential academic philosophers and historians of #ChinesePhilosophy and #ChineseReligion in #ModernChina.
#Daoism #道教 #Buddhism #佛教 #哲學 #宗教

#DOTD: Liang Shuming 梁漱溟 (1893–1988), modern #Confucian philosopher who was strongly influenced by #Indian #Buddhist #philosophy. #ModernChina #ChinesePhilosophy #ChineseReligion

The Immortals: Faces of the Incredible in Buddhist Burma > promising him special access to a better future life and even nibbāna, that possesses great appeal to him. [...] > When people engage in religious behavior, they are trying to see where there is a concentration of power to which they can connect themselves. So, the question is, where do you think such concentrations of power lie?

🗣️ Faces of the Incredible in Buddhist Burma (A free, 42-minute podcast from 2018)

Tags: #ChineseReligion #Buddhism #Thirdeye #SeaMahayana #Pureland #Religion #BurmeseBuddhism

The final makeup of the group demonstrates a breadth of representation that is unlikely to be coincidental - old, young; poor, rich; military, civil; male, female. This 'DEI' was pointed out even during the late Ming by 王世贞 (wáng shì zhēn), a poet and writer.

#culture #Chinesereligion #history

On Saints and Wizards: Ideals of Human Perfection and Power in Contemporary Burmese Buddhism > Known in Burmese as the *weikza-lam* or ‘Path of Esoteric Knowledge,’ this tradition has as its goal not the termination of saṃsāric life as an arahant, but rather its indefi nite prolongation through the attainment of virtual immortality

📰 Ideals of Human Perfection and Power in Contemporary Burmese Buddhism (A free, 36-page article from 2010)

Tags: #ChineseReligion #BurmeseBuddhism #Buddhism

#BOTD: Xu Dishan 許地山 (1893-1941), #Taiwanese scholar and folklorist of Indian and #ChineseReligion, #literature, and #Sanskrit, and alumnus of University of Oxford. #ModernChina #ChineseReligion #SinoIndianRelations

Visualizations of Mountain–Body Fusions in Medieval Chinese Philosophy, Art, and Religion This paper examines how Chinese people affiliated with different religions and ideologies of the Song period (960–1279 CE) used artistic, literary and visual representations to merge mountains and the...

The journal Religions has published "Visualizations of Mountain-Body Fusions in Medieval Chinese Philosophy, Art, and Religion," an article I've written that is available open access. #visualization #chinesereligion #Buddhism #Daoism mdpi.com/2077-1444/15...

#DOTD: Liang Shuming 梁漱溟 (1893–1988), modern #Confucian philosopher who was strongly influenced by #Indian #Buddhist #philosophy. #ModernChina #ChinesePhilosophy #ChineseReligion

#BOTD: Xu Dishan 許地山 (1893-1941), #Taiwanese scholar and folklorist of Indian and #ChineseReligion, #literature, and #Sanskrit, and alumnus of @UniofOxford. #ModernChina #ChineseReligion #SinoIndianRelations