Benjamin Brose is assistant professor of Chinese Religions in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Michigan.
Patrons and Patriarchs breaks new ground in the study of clergy-court relations during the tumultuous period that spanned the collapse of the Tang dynasty (618–907) and the consolidation of the Northern Song (960–1127). This era, known as the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, has typically been characterized as a time of debilitating violence and instability, but it also brought increased economic prosperity, regional development, and political autonomy to southern territories.
The book describes how the formation of new states in southeastern China elevated local Buddhist traditions and moved Chan (Zen) monks from the margins to the center of Chinese society. Drawing on biographies, inscriptions, private histories, and government records, it argues that the shift in imperial patronage from a diverse array of Buddhist clerics to members of specific Chan lineages was driven by political, social, and geographical reorientations set in motion by the collapse of the Tang dynasty and the consolidation of regional powers during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms. As monastic communities representing diverse arrays of thought, practice, and pedagogy allied with rival political factions, the outcome of power struggles determined which clerical networks assumed positions of power and which doctrines were enshrined as orthodoxy. Rather than view the ascent of Chan monks and their traditions as instances of intellectual hegemony, this book focuses on the larger sociopolitical processes that lifted members of Chan lineages onto the imperial stage. Against the historical backdrop of the tenth century, Patrons and Patriarchs explores the nature and function of Chan lineage systems, the relationships between monastic and lay families, and the place of patronage in establishing identity and authority in monastic movements.
發表於2024-11-07
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Benjamin Brose’s book, Patrons and Patriarchs, proved that during the disunification of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, elite Chan monks started to serve a pivot position within the sangha-state political milieu of those kingdoms and dynasties ...
評分Benjamin Brose’s book, Patrons and Patriarchs, proved that during the disunification of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, elite Chan monks started to serve a pivot position within the sangha-state political milieu of those kingdoms and dynasties ...
評分Benjamin Brose’s book, Patrons and Patriarchs, proved that during the disunification of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, elite Chan monks started to serve a pivot position within the sangha-state political milieu of those kingdoms and dynasties ...
評分Benjamin Brose’s book, Patrons and Patriarchs, proved that during the disunification of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, elite Chan monks started to serve a pivot position within the sangha-state political milieu of those kingdoms and dynasties ...
評分Benjamin Brose’s book, Patrons and Patriarchs, proved that during the disunification of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, elite Chan monks started to serve a pivot position within the sangha-state political milieu of those kingdoms and dynasties ...
圖書標籤: 禪宗 五代十國 宗教 隋唐史 社會科學 社會學 社會 海外中國研究
不如Welter的五代佛教史,雖說是想要進一步在大的社會背景下挖掘五代十國地方君主與僧人之間的互動,卻讀不齣太多新的東西,絕大多數史實其實Welter已經或多或少提到過。比較重要的貢獻是用分國分章的形式勾勒瞭禪宗僧團在各國的發展,這樣脈絡更加清晰。不過,作者論述的論點實在不太清楚,雖然瞭解瞭patrons and patriarchs,不禁還是想進一步問so what,感覺若要能進一步深挖這一時段patronage與大曆史背景和社會經濟變化的聯係就更好瞭。
評分非常快的瀏覽,完全不理會doctrine,不過vinaya和chan的部分還挺有意思的。
評分沒來得及讀完,所以vinaya和chan那部分到底是什麼!
評分見welter書評。五代急需挖掘
評分非常快的瀏覽,完全不理會doctrine,不過vinaya和chan的部分還挺有意思的。
Patrons and Patriarchs 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載