Welcome to the Database of Modern Chinese Buddhism |
This is a collaborative project hosted by Dharma Drum Buddhist College that gathers information on topics related to Buddhism in China between 1850 and 1950 CE. We're currently working on 409 articles on various topics. All data on the wiki is licensed under an Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported Creative Commons license.
To begin, try searching for a keyword in the field on the left, or browse one of the main article categories:
Current Featured Article |
The Jīnlíng Scriptural Press (Jīnlíng kèjīngchù 金陵刻經處) is a famous scriptural press 刻經處 founded by Yáng Wénhuì 楊文會 in Nánjīng 南京 in the 1870s. After a short hiatus between about 1966 and 1980, it continues to be active today. The press was one of the earliest to spearhead the reprinting of Buddhist texts in China. |
Past Featured Articles: |
Biography Portal Articles on the lives and work of prominent lay and monastic Buddhists | Periodical Portal Summaries of Buddhist periodical publications, dates and places of publication, important editors and contributors |
Ideological Doctrines, philosophies, controversies and teachings | Chronology Portal Articles covering major events in each year of the period, as well as guides to the era and reign names of different authorities |
Institutional Important institutions, including schools, monasteries, temples, and seminaries | Bibliography and Publication Portal Lists of scholarly and primary sources, as well as articles on publishing houses and important publications of the era |
Geography Portal Articles on Buddhist events and spaces in major cities, provinces, and regions |
Project Contributors | |
Erik Hammerstrom 韓光 Website |
Gregory Adam Scott 史瑞戈 Website |
Marcus Bingenheimer 馬德偉 Website |
Simon Wiles 魏希明 |
The editors of the Database of Modern Chinese Buddhism would like to thank the Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation and the China and Inner Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies for a Small Grant given in the summer of 2010 for the continued expansion of this site.