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|Shǐ Yīrú [[史一如]]||1876 - 1925||A scholar of Buddhist Logic, translator of works of Japanese Buddhology, and early confederate of Tàixū [[太虛]]. He taught at the Wuchang Buddhist Seminary [[武昌佛學院]] during its first year | |Shǐ Yīrú [[史一如]]||1876 - 1925||A scholar of Buddhist Logic, translator of works of Japanese Buddhology, and early confederate of Tàixū [[太虛]]. He taught at the Wuchang Buddhist Seminary [[武昌佛學院]] during its first year | ||
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| + | |Yuányīng [[圓瑛]]||1878 - 1953||A towering figure of Republican Buddhism, and a critic of Tàixū's more radical suggestions for reform. He was president of the Chinese Buddhist Association [[中國佛教會]] from 1928 to 1937. He was also the abbot of a number of important temples in the Jiāngnán [[江南]] region. | ||
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| + | |Lǚ Bìchéng [[呂碧城]]||1883 - 1943||Probably the most famous Chinese Buddhist woman of the Republican period, Lǚ was a poet, journalist, and lay Buddhist. She had extensive experience living abroad in the 1920s and 1930s, and worked to tell Chinese about Buddhism in Europe, and teach Europeans about Buddhist compassion. | ||
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| + | |Táng Dàyuán [[唐大圓]]||ca. 1890 - 1941||A colleague of Tàixū [[太虛]], a noted lay teacher of monks, and scholar of Consciousness-Only 唯識 thought | ||
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| + | |Shànyīn [[善因]]||dates unknown||He and Kōngyě [[空也]] were Tàixū’s [[太虛]] early right-hand men. Shànyīn was particularly interested in Consciousness-Only 唯識 and Madhyamaka thought. | ||
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|Lǚ Chéng [[呂澂]]||1896 - 1989||A student of Ōuyáng Jiàn [[歐陽漸]], headed his Chinese Inner Studies Institute [[支那內學院]], and remained a prominent figure in Chinese Buddhism after 1949. | |Lǚ Chéng [[呂澂]]||1896 - 1989||A student of Ōuyáng Jiàn [[歐陽漸]], headed his Chinese Inner Studies Institute [[支那內學院]], and remained a prominent figure in Chinese Buddhism after 1949. | ||
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| + | |Zhōu Shújiā [[周叔迦]]||1899 - 1970||An important scholar and teacher of Consciousness-Only thought during the Republican period, and a founding member of the Chinese Buddhist Association [[中國佛教協會]] | ||
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| + | |Dān Péigēn [[單培根]]||1917 - 1995||A student of consciousness-only and Chinese medicine | ||
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| Nanjō Bunyū / Nanjio Bunyiu 南条文雄 | 1849 - 1927 | A priest of the Ōtani 大谷 sect of Japan's Jodō Shinshū 浄土真宗 school. He studied at Oxford with famed orientalist Max Müller, and collaborated with Yáng Wénhuì 楊文會 on a number of Buddhist projects. Chief among which was the reprinting of Buddhist texts held in Japan, but lost in China. |
| Yìnguāng 印光 | 1861 - 1940 | Credited with reviving the Pure Land school 淨土宗 in China |
| Dīng Fúbǎo 丁福保 | 1874 - 1952 | Writer and publisher, best known for his Great Dictionary of Buddhism 佛學大辭典 published in 1922, a translation of Bukkyō daijiten 仏教大辞典 by Oda Tokunō 織田徳能 |
| Shǐ Yīrú 史一如 | 1876 - 1925 | A scholar of Buddhist Logic, translator of works of Japanese Buddhology, and early confederate of Tàixū 太虛. He taught at the Wuchang Buddhist Seminary 武昌佛學院 during its first year |
| Yuányīng 圓瑛 | 1878 - 1953 | A towering figure of Republican Buddhism, and a critic of Tàixū's more radical suggestions for reform. He was president of the Chinese Buddhist Association 中國佛教會 from 1928 to 1937. He was also the abbot of a number of important temples in the Jiāngnán 江南 region. |
| Lǚ Bìchéng 呂碧城 | 1883 - 1943 | Probably the most famous Chinese Buddhist woman of the Republican period, Lǚ was a poet, journalist, and lay Buddhist. She had extensive experience living abroad in the 1920s and 1930s, and worked to tell Chinese about Buddhism in Europe, and teach Europeans about Buddhist compassion. |
| Táng Dàyuán 唐大圓 | ca. 1890 - 1941 | A colleague of Tàixū 太虛, a noted lay teacher of monks, and scholar of Consciousness-Only 唯識 thought |
| Shànyīn 善因 | dates unknown | He and Kōngyě 空也 were Tàixū’s 太虛 early right-hand men. Shànyīn was particularly interested in Consciousness-Only 唯識 and Madhyamaka thought. |
| Lǚ Chéng 呂澂 | 1896 - 1989 | A student of Ōuyáng Jiàn 歐陽漸, headed his Chinese Inner Studies Institute 支那內學院, and remained a prominent figure in Chinese Buddhism after 1949. |
| Zhōu Shújiā 周叔迦 | 1899 - 1970 | An important scholar and teacher of Consciousness-Only thought during the Republican period, and a founding member of the Chinese Buddhist Association 中國佛教協會 |
| Dān Péigēn 單培根 | 1917 - 1995 | A student of consciousness-only and Chinese medicine |