Welch Project

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The Welch Project is currently a companion page to Holmes Welch's The Buddhist Revival in China. It will be developed over the coming years.

THE BUDDHIST REVIVAL IN CHINA

Contents

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

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