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Venerable Shengyan’s Self-Representation in Relation to His Formulation of Chan Buddhism

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Jimmy Yu

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This paper takes a narrative approach, looking at Chan master Shengyan’s (1931-2009) autobiographies, and historicizing his response to life and the circumstances of Chinese Chan Buddhism in the zeitgeist of the twentieth century. The time-honored Chan Buddhist tradition, in the tumultuous sociopolitical transition, struggled for a space in the age of reason and rationality; this perceived struggle on the larger religious and sociological scale was encapsulated in Shengyan’s own narration of his life, forming his personal and religious identities. My basic argument is that his Chan teachings were contingent on both his personal crisis and his perceived global crisis of a war-torn China. Against the backdrop of his individual struggles, the sociopolitical transformations of twentieth century China, the internal crisis of orthodoxy, and the external threat of non-Chinese forms of Buddhism in Taiwan, Shengyan envisioned Chan Buddhism as the doctrinal culmination and experiential fulfillment of the whole of Buddhism, manifested through creating the Dharma Drum Lineage.

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Abstract
Introduction
A Life Forged through Crises
Yearning for Education and Monkhood
Clash of Ritualism with Modernist Views
Joining the Army and the Flight to Taiwan
A Chinese Buddhism in Crisis
Conclusion
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  • Jimmy Yu Professor Of The Florida State University

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