Reinventing the Cult of Maitreya in Modern Chinese Buddhism
by
Justin Ritzinger
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
Anarchy in the Pure Land investigates the twentieth-century reinvention of the cult of Maitreya, the future Buddha, conceived by the reformer Taixu and promoted by the Chinese Buddhist reform movement. The cult presents an apparent anomaly: It shows precisely the kind of concern for ritual, supernatural...