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| + | |name-date=Táng Dàyuán 唐大圓 (ca. 1890 - 1941) | ||
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| + | |birth=ca. 1890 in Wǔgāng 武崗, Húnán [[湖南]] | ||
| + | |death=February 1, [[1941]] (Mínguó 民國 30) in Bǎoqìng 寶慶, Húnán of illness | ||
| + | |associates=Notable Associates: | ||
| + | * Fǎfǎng [[法舫]] | ||
| + | * Huánxíng [[遠行]] | ||
| + | * Jiǎng Wéiqiáo [[蔣維喬]] | ||
| + | * Shǐ Yìrú [[史一如]] | ||
| + | * Tàixū [[太虛]] | ||
| + | * Yìnguāng [[印光]] | ||
| + | |editor-name=Erik Hammerstrom | ||
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== Táng Dàyuán 唐大圓 (ca. 1890 - 1941) == | == Táng Dàyuán 唐大圓 (ca. 1890 - 1941) == | ||
Táng was a colleague of Tàixū, a noted lay teacher of monks, and scholar of Consciousness-Only 唯識 thought. | Táng was a colleague of Tàixū, a noted lay teacher of monks, and scholar of Consciousness-Only 唯識 thought. | ||
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'''Biography''' | '''Biography''' | ||
Táng Dàyuán 唐大圓 (ca. 1890 - 1941)
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Táng was a colleague of Tàixū, a noted lay teacher of monks, and scholar of Consciousness-Only 唯識 thought.
Biography
Táng took refuge under Yìnguāng 印光 in 1912. In his early years as a Buddhist, he practiced Pure Land, but after reading the first issues of Hǎicháo yīn 海潮音 he began to take a strong interest in Consciousness-Only 唯識 thought.
He lived in Wuchang for a long time. In 1922, he accepted the invitation of Wú Bìhuá 吳璧華 to come to Wēnzhōu 溫州 to lecture and propagate the dharma. That same year, he met Tàixū 太虛, who hired him in April to head the Hankou Right Faith Society's 正信會 Buddhist Studies Institute 佛教講習所, which was just getting started. When the Institute's first group of students graduated in August, its name was changed to the Wuchang Buddhist Seminary 武昌佛學院. When the Seminary opened in September, Tàixū initially took on the duties of teaching Consciousness-Only, eventually Táng took over.
In 1924, Táng replaced his colleague Shǐ Yìrú 史一如 editing the Hǎicháo yīn. This same year Táng, Tàixū, and students of the Wuchang Buddhist Seminary became embroiled in a debate over the authenticity of the Mahāyāna Awakening of Faith 大乘起信論真偽辯. Their principle opponents in this debate were Ōuyáng Jìngwú 歐陽竟無 and his students at the Zhīnà nèixué yuàn 支那內學院 in Nanjing.
Táng was invited to Shanghai in 1925 to lecture on Consciousness-Only thought and edit the eponymous periodical of the Shanghai Lay Buddhist Association 上海佛教居士林. The Association also published several of Táng's works on Consciousness-Only, which were written for the nonspecialist.
With the arrival of the Northern Expedition, the Wuchang Buddhist Seminary was forced to shut down. Around this time, Táng started the magazine Dōngfāng wénhuà 東方文化, for which he was the principle contributor. He also taught at Nanjing’s Southwestern University 東南大學 along with Jiǎng Wéiqiáo 蔣維喬. He briefly went to Beijing with Tàixū on a lecture tour in 1927, but he came back on August 19 of that year. That fall he opened a library in Changsha, Hunan, inaugurating it with a lecture series on Consciousness-Only.
In July, 1928, Tàixū organized a monks' training group as part of the Chinese Buddhist Association 中國佛教會, which was headed by Táng and the monk Huánxíng 遠行. In 1929, acting on a letter sent by Tàixū who was abroad, they created at Wuchang the World Buddhist Studies Center 世界佛學苑 on April 14th. Fǎfǎng 法舫 took over running the Center in 1932. Later, Táng started the Eastern Culture Research Bureau 東方文化研究苑 in Wuchang, and got Tàixū to lecture there.
Táng remained in Wuhan during the war, dying of illness on February 1, 1941.
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