Toward a Chinese Buddhist Modernism: Khenpo Sodargye and the Han Inundation of Larung Gar

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Andrew S. Taylor (唐安竺)
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Abstract

Larung Gar is often hailed by scholars and practitioners alike as a last bastion of authentic Buddhist practice by ethnic Tibetans within the PRC. And yet, Larung is visited every year by tens of thousands of Han pilgrims and houses hundreds of Han monastics who have taken vows in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. The author draws on a variety of oral and written sources to show that the Han inundation of Larung was not a byproduct of happenstance, but was actively facilitated by the Larung leadership, especially Khenpo Sodargye (མཁན་པོ་བསོད་དར་རྒྱས་ 索达吉堪布), through the targeted recruitment of Han practitioners. A comparative analysis of Tibetan- and Chinese-language materials shows that the neo-scientific and therapeutic teachings used to recruit Han practitioners superficially resemble similar “Buddhist modernist” discourses in the west and Tibet, but that their content is decidedly more soteriological than this moniker suggests. The article considers whether the encounter between Han practitioners and Tibetan Buddhism might eventually represent a nascent form of inter-ethnic Chinese Buddhist modernism.
走向中国佛教的现代主义:堪布索达杰与汉人对喇荣寺的淹没
喇荣寺经常被学者和修行人称赞为中国境内藏族人真正修行佛教的最后堡垒。然而,喇荣每年都有成千上万的汉族朝圣者前来朝拜,并有数百名汉族僧人在藏传佛教传统中宣誓。作者利用各种口头和书面资料表明,汉人对喇隆的淹没不是偶然事件的副产品,而是由喇隆领导层积极推动的,特别是通过有针对性地招募汉人修行者。对藏文和汉文材料的比较分析表明,用于招募汉族修行者的新科学和治疗性教义表面上类似于西方和西藏的“佛教现代主义”话语,但其内容显然比这个绰号所暗示的更具有救赎性。这篇文章考虑的是,汉族佛教修行者与藏传佛教之间的相遇,是否最终代表了中国民族间佛教现代主义的一种新生形式。
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