Description: This seminar focuses on developments within Buddhism in China from the end of the nineteenth through the middle of the twentieth century. The reading materials, including a range of primary sources in translation and scholarship relevant to this period, will explore the confluence of East Asian and Euro-American representations of Buddhism. The themes of modernity, nationalism, and colonialism, will serve as conceptual tools for assessing the purposes through which reform movements have portrayed the history and practice of Buddhism in China from the Late Imperial to the Republican Period;
Student level: Senior seminar;
Related Fields: Asian Studies, Religious Studies, History; Course format: Weekly seminar meeting;
Requirements: Weekly reading responses; Final research paper.