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	Publisher: Gyan Publishing House, New Delhi
	Author Karl Ludvig Reichelt
	Language: English
	Pages: 323
	Cover: HARDCOVER
	9x6 inch
	Weight 610 gm
	Edition: 2024
	ISBN: 9789364339537
	HBX246

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About the Book "Truth and Tradition in Chinese Buddhism" by Karl Ludvig Reichelt examines the interplay between indigenous Chinese religious practices and Buddhism. Reichelt, a Norwegian missionary and scholar, provides an in-depth analysis of how Chinese culture and traditional beliefs influenced the development and practice of Buddhism in China. His work highlights the syncretic nature of Chinese Buddhism, illustrating its adaptation and integration into the existing cultural and religious landscape, thereby enriching the understanding of this complex spiritual tradition.

About the Author Kathrina Van Wagenen Budge (1877-1952) was a renowned translator and scholar of Chinese Buddhism. Her translation of "Truth and Tradition in Chinese Buddhism" reflects her deep understanding of the subject, contributing significantly to Western knowledge of Chinese religious practices and philosophical traditions. Budge's meticulous work helped bridge the cultural and intellectual gap between East and West, making complex Buddhist texts accessible to English-speaking audiences and fostering a greater appreciation for Chinese spiritual heritage.

Preface When the Jesuits first came into contact with Buddhism in Japan, in the sixteenth century they wrote of it as the work of the devil, who in it had cleverly imitated many things in the Roman ritual and was even deceiving men by adopting the Lutheran horsey of salvation by faith. Modern missionaries, on the other hand, have been inclined to account for apparently Christian Clements in Buddhism by ascribing them to direct as well as indirect influences of Christianity itself. Others point to these similarities as evidence of tendencies not uncommonly found in the development of historic religions. In this book we have the work of neither the partisan adversary nor the partisan advocate, nor yet of a cold and scholarly but personally indifferent (and quite objective) student of the history of religions. The author has indeed supplemented his long and intimate personal observations and studies of Buddhism in China by scholarly and exacting study of original Buddhist texts and the published works of other Western students in this field; but his chief claim on our gratitude is his illuminating appreciation of what is best and even of much which at first sight seems hopelessly superstitious and corrupt in this ancient and prolific faith. I believe the Christian church in China is ready to welcome this sympathetic presentation of the truth and traditions in Chinese Buddhism. Doubtless others will also give this work a warm welcome, for it abounds in fascinating descriptions of what many take to be meaningless ceremonies and brilliant suggestions as to the results of possible or actual contacts between Christianity and Buddhism during the twelve hundred years since they first met on Chinese soil. But its supreme service will be to Christian missionaries from the West.

Introduction As the title of the book indicates, it will be our object to present the nature and history of Mahayana Buddhism as that history has been evolved on Chinese soil, and as it unfolds itself according to its own nature in the present-day life of this great culture-land of the Far East. We have, therefore, taken as a motto for the entire book that great dominating saying which incontestably has become the principal thought of the Chinese Mahayana, "The salvation of all living things" (P'u chi chung shêng,普濟衆生). Mahayana Buddhism, or, in other words, the Buddhism of the Great Vehicle, has, in recent years, attracted to itself by its very massiveness the in-creasing attention of investigators. This interest is due not merely to its tremendous thought-structures and systems, and its highly developed apparatus of worship, which give it a special position in the life of the East, but also to the fact that it meets, in a most remarkable manner, many of the great religious cravings of life which men in all times and all places feel more or less consciously.

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