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Publications such as Essential Buddhist Texts for Laypeople were an important means of communicating religious teachings and new ideas to Buddhists throughout the Chinese-reading world.

Bibliography and Publishing are two important topics in the history of Modern Chinese Buddhism. New material and social technologies allowed Buddhists to produce texts in much greater numbers than before. The content of the texts was also geared to the modern age, with introductory textbooks, commentaries, and treaties on Buddhism produced on a massive scale.

Consult the Print bibliography for research resources on Modern Chinese Buddhism.

Gregory Adam Scott is the section editor for bibliographical articles.

Contents

Scriptural Presses

The Scriptural Press 刻經處 was a type of publishing institution dedicated to the production of Buddhist scriptures. Several were established during the late Qīng and Republican periods, many by lay people.[1]

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Sūtra Distributors

These were centers for publishing and distributing copies of Buddhist scriptures

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Publishers, Editors, and Authors

Includes major names only - virtually all prominent figures have at least some texts attributed to them, but these were especially influential or prolific.

  • Yáng Wénhuì 楊文會 (1837-1911); founder of the Jinling Scriptural Press 金陵刻經處
  • Jiǎng Wéiqiáo 蔣維喬 (1873-1958); worked as chief editor of the textbooks division of the Commercial Press 商務印書館; translated and edited A History of Chinese Buddhism 中國佛教史, 1929
  • Dí Chǔqīng 狄楚青 (c. 1873-1941); co-founder of the newspaper Shíbào 時報 and of Yǒuzhèng Press 有正書局; helped to publish the Qìshā Canon 磧砂藏
  • Dīng Fúbǎo 丁福保 (1874-1952); established the Medical Press 醫學書局 in Shànghǎi in 1908; published The Great Dictionary of Buddhism 佛學大辭典 in 1922
  • Xú Wèirú 徐蔚如 (1878-1937); co-founded the Bějīing Scriptural Press 北京刻經處 in 1918; founded Tiānjīn Scriptural Press 天津刻經處 the next year; ran them both for many years
  • Méi Guāngxī 梅光羲 (1880-1947); major supporter of the Jinling Scriptural Press 金陵刻經處
  • Fàn Gǔnóng 范古農 (1881-1951); general editor for Shànghǎi Buddhist Books 上海佛學書局 from 1929
  • Lǚ Bìchéng 呂碧城 (1883-1943); wrote several Chinese and bilingual Chinese-English works for Shànghǎi Buddhist Books

Publishing Houses

Includes publishers that did not specialize in Buddhist books but who published a large number of works related to Buddhism.[2]

Publishing Technologies

Those used in printing Buddhist publications are included here

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Important Publications

Several articles, series and monographs had a lasting impact on the state of Buddhism in modern China. Some of them are listed here:

Bibliographies and Guides for Modern Chinese Buddhist Studies

Lists of titles and guides to important sources for the study of Modern Chinese Buddhism.

Notes

  1. ↑ See Shì Dōngchū 釋東初. Zhōngguó Fójiào jìndài shǐ 中國佛教近代史 (A History of Early Contemporary Chinese Buddhism), in Dōngchū lǎorén quánjí 東初老人全集 (Complete Collection of Old Man Dongchu), vols. 1-2. Taipei: Dongchu, 1974 Pp. 1.249－251 for more information.
  2. ↑ Some of this list is taken from 孟令兵, 老上海文化奇葩-上海佛學書局 (上海: 上海人民出版社, 2003).
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