Postponement in Perpetuality: The Buddha's Prophecy of the End of Buddhism and Its Transmission in East Asia

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-71511-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 12, 412 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: Studies on East Asian Religions

The Buddha prophesied his teachings would vanish a few hundred years after his passing, posing an existential dilemma for Chinese Buddhists on the brink of Buddhism’s disappearance.

This book explores their centuries-long struggle with this prophecy and the unique East Asian Buddhist belief of mofa (‘the final age of Buddhism’) that emerged as a result.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Liu, Yi

Chen, Jinhua

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Buddhismus

Über Autor(innen)

Yi Liu, Ph.D. (2000), is a professor in the School of History at Capital Normal University. He has published eight monographs and more than 160 articles on Daoism and Buddhism, including a monograph on the intellectual historical background of the formation of medieval Philosophical Daoism (Zhonghua shuju, 2005), and a monograph on medieval Daoist Lingbao scriptures during the Six Dynasties (Shanghai guji chubanshe, 2018).

Jinhua Chen, Ph.D. (1997), is a professor of East Asian Buddhism at the University of British Columbia and a member of the Royal Society of Canada. Jinhua Chen has authored six monographs and a few dozen articles on trans-national narratives of Buddhism, church-state relationships, Buddhist monasticism, translations of Buddhist texts, and manuscript cultures.