This paper investigates the formation of the sacredness of Gaomin Temple(高旻寺)during the Qing Dynasty and reveals that its sacredness is closely related to the writing of the“Cultural Jiangnan(文化江南)”1 image of...This paper investigates the formation of the sacredness of Gaomin Temple(高旻寺)during the Qing Dynasty and reveals that its sacredness is closely related to the writing of the“Cultural Jiangnan(文化江南)”1 image of Yangzhou(扬州)by a group of intellectuals in the city.Based on the theory of the semiotics of cities and subculture,this article points out that under the joint action of such factors as salt merchants,emperors,the palace on tour,literati,and monks,Gaomin Temple was able to retain its religious value in the symbolic meaning of the space structure,get through diverse social conditions,and align itself with societal values.Therefore,the temple has become an urban symbolic system of a“semantic field”,which is also the social source of its sanctity.展开更多
Holmes Welch(1924-1981),who was a Sinologist at Harvard University,conducted comprehensive and in-depth studies on the Buddhist revival in modern China through detailed historical data and formed distinctive academic ...Holmes Welch(1924-1981),who was a Sinologist at Harvard University,conducted comprehensive and in-depth studies on the Buddhist revival in modern China through detailed historical data and formed distinctive academic views that recognized the conventional Buddhist system and questioned the Buddhist reform movement advocated by reformative monks.This paper reviews Welch’s research context on Buddhist revival,integrates the views of other scholars,and points out the problems of Welch’s study regarding subjective guidance of oral information,the lack of study on Buddhist thought,and the lack of consciousness of Buddhist modernity.展开更多
基金funded by the National Social Science Fund of China,grant number 21CZJ002the New Young Teachers’Research Start-up Project,Beijing Foreign Studies University,grant number 2021QD005
文摘This paper investigates the formation of the sacredness of Gaomin Temple(高旻寺)during the Qing Dynasty and reveals that its sacredness is closely related to the writing of the“Cultural Jiangnan(文化江南)”1 image of Yangzhou(扬州)by a group of intellectuals in the city.Based on the theory of the semiotics of cities and subculture,this article points out that under the joint action of such factors as salt merchants,emperors,the palace on tour,literati,and monks,Gaomin Temple was able to retain its religious value in the symbolic meaning of the space structure,get through diverse social conditions,and align itself with societal values.Therefore,the temple has become an urban symbolic system of a“semantic field”,which is also the social source of its sanctity.
基金the middle-stage research findings from the“The Social Life History of Monks in Chinese Buddhism,”the 2017 Major Program of the National Social Science Fund of China(Grant No.17ZDA233)
文摘Holmes Welch(1924-1981),who was a Sinologist at Harvard University,conducted comprehensive and in-depth studies on the Buddhist revival in modern China through detailed historical data and formed distinctive academic views that recognized the conventional Buddhist system and questioned the Buddhist reform movement advocated by reformative monks.This paper reviews Welch’s research context on Buddhist revival,integrates the views of other scholars,and points out the problems of Welch’s study regarding subjective guidance of oral information,the lack of study on Buddhist thought,and the lack of consciousness of Buddhist modernity.
