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The Welch Project is currently a companion page to Holmes Welch's Welch, Holmes. The Buddhist Revival in China. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1968.. It will be developed in coming years.
THE BUDDHIST REVIVAL IN CHINA
Chapter 1. The Beginning's of the Revival
Yang Wen-hui
Modern Education for Monks
Revolutionary Monks
Chapter 2. The Struggle For National Leadership
The Invasion of Chin Shan
Rival Buddhist Associations
The Chinese Buddhist Association (Shanghai, 1929)
Chapter 3. T'ai-hsü
World Organizations
Domestic Organizations
T'ai-hsü and Science
T'ai-hsü's Methods
Chapter 4. The Lay Buddhist Movement
Types of Lay Societies
The Right Faith Society
The Growing Role of the Laity
Chapter 5. Building and Publishing
Restoration
New Monasteries
Publishing
Chapter 6. Buddhist Education
Traditional Education
Seminaries: Kuan-tsung
T'ai-hsü's Seminaries
The T'ien-ning Seminary
The Level of Education
The Metaphysical Institute
Chapter 7. Social Action by the Sangha
The Lung-ch'üan Orphanage
Other Welfare Activities
The Sangha's Approach to Social Welfare
Chapter 8. Sangha and State
Republican Laws and Their Enforcement
The law Versus the Enemies of Buddhism
Friends in High Places
Monks in Politics
Chapter 9. Foreign Contacts
Contacts with Japan
Contacts with Tibet
Contacts with Theravada Buddhists
Contacts with Christians
Christian Converts to Buddhism
Contacts with Chinese Overseas
Chapter 10. Sects and Dissention
The Esoteric School
The Antisectarian Trend
Regional Loyalties
Divisive Issues
Chapter 11. Christian Stereotypes and Buddhist Realities
Buddhist Realities
The Growth in Understanding
Distorting Factors
Regional Differences
Chapter 12. The Meaning of the Revival
Was it a Revival?
Postscript
Appendices:
1. Buddhist Periodicals
2. Buddhist Seminaries
3. Monastic Population Figures
4. Regional Decay