"Take the Vinaya as Your Master"

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Acknowledgment

List of Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Part 1 Questioning Monastic Identity: Vinaya and Authenticity

1 Vinaya Master Hongyi’s 弘一 Vinaya Problem

 Raoul Birnbaum

2 Retaking the Monastic Precepts: Shanghai Lay Buddhists’ Struggle for the Authenticity of Monkhood in the 1980s

 Zhe Ji 汲喆

Part 2 Adjusting the Vinaya: Ordination Procedures

3 Discipline and Enlightenment: Hanyue Fazang 漢月法藏 (1573–1635) and the Spread of the Triple Platform Ordination Ceremony in Seventeenth-Century China

 Jiang Wu 吳疆

4 Authenticity and Authority: Dual Ordination in Post-war Taiwan

 Yu-chen Li 李玉珍

Part 3 Mahāyāna Vinaya: Bodhisattva Precepts and Chinese Monastic Codes

5 Yogācāra Bodhisattva Precepts in Twentieth Century China: Reevaluating Rules and Commitments in the Light of Modernity

 Ester Bianchi

6 Changing Attitudes to the Precepts in Modern Taiwan: The Debate between Brahmā’s Net Precepts and Yogācāra Precepts

 Pei-ying Lin 林佩瑩

7 Buddhist Monastic Regulations in Contemporary China: Adapting the Rules to a Changing Social and Political Context

 Daniela Campo

Part 4 Vinaya Specifics in the Modern World: Body Movement and Sport Activities

8 Body Movement and Sport Activities: A Buddhist Normative Perspective from India to China

 Ann Heirman and Tzu-Lung Chiu 邱子倫

9 Physical Exercise and Sporting Activities in Contemporary Taiwanese and Mainland Chinese Buddhist Monasteries

 Tzu-Lung Chiu 邱子倫 and Ann Heirman

References

Index