Hongyi 弘一

Hóngyī 弘一 (1880-1942)

Hóngyī was an educated and literate leader of the New Culture movement, who turned his back on modernity to become a monk.

• Born 9/20 1880 (Guāngxù 光緒 6) in Tiānjīn 天津
• Died October 13, 1942 (Mínguó 民國 31) in Quánzhōu 泉州, Fújiàn 福建
• Youth name 幼名: Chéngxī 成蹊
• Student name 學名: Wéntáo 文濤
• Lay name 俗名: Lǐ Shūtóng 李叔同
• Names 名: Xí 息; Guǎnghóu 廣侯
• Style names 號: Shùtǒng 漱筒; Yǎnyīn 演音 and many others
• Courtesy names 字: Shūtóng 叔同; Xíshuāng 息霜
• Dharma name 法名: Hóngyī 弘一

Biography

Important Works

• 四分律比丘戒相表記 (1924)
• 南山律在家備覽略篇
• 律學講錄三十三種合訂本
• 南山律苑文集
• 晚晴集
• 晚晴老人講演錄
• 弘一大師大全集

Notes

References:

• Birnbaum, Raoul. "Master Hongyi Looks Back: A Modern Man Becomes a Monk in Twentieth- Century China" in Steven Heine and Charles S. Prebish, eds., Buddhism in the Modern World. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003, pp. 75-124.
• -----. "The Deathbed Image of Master Hongyi," in The Buddhist Dead: Practices, Discourses, Representations, ed. Jacqueline Stone and Bryan Cuevas, Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2007, pp. 175-207.
• Chén Huìjiàn 陳慧劍. Hóngyī dàshī zhuàn 弘一大師傳. Taipei: Dongtu tushu, 2004.
• Chen Xing and Zhao Changchun. Hongyi dashi yingji. Jinan: Shandong Huabao chubanshe, 1999.
• Fang Ailong. Hongyi dashi shufa chuanlun. Hangzhou: Xiling yinshe, 2001.
• Feng Zikai and Hongyi. Hùshēng huàjí 護生畫集 (Drawings to Protect Life). Shanghai: Kaiming shudian, 1929.
• Gu Liu and Peng Fei, eds. Hongyi dashi tan yilu. Henan meishu chubanshe, 2000.
• Hóngyī 弘一 et al. Nánshān lǜyuàn wénjí 南山律苑文集. Singapore: Daxin yinjuguan, 1962.
• Hóngyī 弘一. Nánshānlǜ zàijiā bèilǎn luèbiān 南山律在家備覽略編. Nantou county, Taiwan: Nanlin, Mínguó 90 [2001].
• Hóngyī 弘一. Nánshānlǜ zàijiā bèilǎn 南山律在家備覽. Hefei: Huangshan shushe, 2005.
• Tarocco, Francesca. The Cultural Practices of Modern Chinese Buddhism. New York: Routledge, 2007.
• Yú Língbō 于凌波. Zhōngguó jìnxiàndài fójiào rénwù zhì 中國近現代佛教人物志. Běijīng 北京: Zōngjiào wénhuà chūbǎnshè 宗教文化出版社, 1995. Pp. 79-95.