The White Lotus Teachings in Chinese Religious History

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BRILL, 2021年9月13日
This book provides a new hypothesis for understanding the real nature of the term White Lotus Teachings. The author argues that there are actually two different phenomena covered by similar terms: from c. 1130 until 1400, a real lay Buddhist movement existed, which can be called the White Lotus movement. It enjoyed the respect of contemporary literati and religious elites. The movement used the autonym White Lotus Society, which came to be prohibited in the early Ming and was discarded as a result. After 1525, the name reappeared in the form White Lotus Teachings, but now only as a derogatory label, used by officials and literati rather than by believers themselves.
As a result of this hypothesis, the history of the "White Lotus Teachings" changes from one of religious groups and magicians into one of elite ideology and religious persecution. The book is therefore important both for historians and anthropologists of Chinese religion and society, and for comparative historians interested in the ideological and social construction of "heterodoxy".
 

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I Introduction
1
II Lay Buddhism in the Song and Yuan
16
III The White Lotus movement
64
IV New Style White Lotus Teachings
114
V The collective fear of 1557
173
VI Label and pseudoautonym
196
VII Towards a history of Qing persecution
247
VIII Some implications
289
People of the Way
305
The rumours of the collective fear of 1557
307
Bibliography
309
Index
334
SINICA LEIDENSIA
345
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B.J. ter Haar is presently a Research Fellow of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences. He works on the history of lay religious groups and mentality.

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