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Author(s):	Brian J. Nichols

Date:	2021	Format:	pdf	Language:	English	ISBN/ASIN:	0824889002
Pages:	288	OCR:		Quality:		ISBN13:
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Southeast China is a traditional stronghold of Buddhism, but little scholarly attention has been paid to this fact. Brian Nicholss pioneering book, Lotus Blossoms and Purple Clouds, centers on a large Buddhist monastery in Quanzhou and combines ethnographic detail with stimulating analysis to examine religion in post-Mao China. Nichols conducted more than twenty-six months of field research over a fourteen-year period (20052019) to develop a re-description of Chinese monastic Buddhism that reaches beyond canonical sources and master narratives to local texts, material culture, oral history, and living traditions. His work decenters normative accounts and sheds light on how Buddhism is lived and practiced. It introduces readers to Quanzhou Kaiyuan Monastery and its community of clergy striving to revive traditions after the turmoil of the Maoist era  the lay Buddhists worshiping in the monasterys courtyards and halls  the busloads of tourists marveling at the sites buildings and artifacts, some dating as far back as the Tang Dynasty (ninth century)  and the local officials dedicated to supportingand restrictingthe return of religion.

Using gazetteers, epigraphy, and other archival sources, Nichols begins by tracing the history of Quanzhou Kaiyuan Monastery from the Tang Dynasty to the present, noting the continued relevance of preternatural events like the lotus-blooming mulberry trees and auspicious purple clouds associated with the founding of the monastery. The contemporary monastery is then explored through ethnographic participation/observation and interviews. Nichols uncovers a number of unexpected features of Buddhist religious life, making a case for the fundamentally liturgical nature of Buddhist monastic practiceone marked by a program of daily
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