Japanese Zen Schools and the Transition to Meiji A Plurality of Responses in the Nineteenth Century
Japanese Zen Schools and the Transition to Meiji A Plurality of Responses in the Nineteenth Century
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日本禅宗与明治时期的过渡 十九世纪的多种反应
DOI:
10.18874/jjrs.25.1-2.1998.167-213
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发表时间:
1998
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通讯作者:
Michel Mohr
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作者:
Michel Mohr
This article scrutinizes the lives of speci≥c ≥gures af≥liated with the three main Zen traditions; it presents ≥rsthand information on their activities from the end of the Tokugawa period through the ≥rst decades of the Meiji era. Changes in the political structure and the ensuing economic or social transformations surprisingly did not fundamentally alter the way these Buddhists apprehended their respective legacies. Of≥cial pressure encouraged them to put more emphasis on the education of commoners and they shared the global trend to give more importance to lay supporters. The content of their teachings, however, primarily appears to reflect what this paper calls “the shrouded continuity” between the Tokugawa and Meiji eras. The teachers and laypersons examined here also illustrate the diversity that pervaded Meiji Buddhism despite the new government’s efforts to centralize all Buddhist institutions; they further bear testimony to the fact that the mutual influence among representatives of different traditions often went beyond arti≥cial sectarian boundaries.