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The Reinterpretation of Chinese Buddhism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2009

Holmes Welch
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China was the second country in the Buddhist world to have a Communist government. The first was Mongolia. But Mongolia was isolated both geographically and by its form of Buddhism (shared only with Tibet). Chinese Buddhists, on the other hand, had been building closer ties with their brethren in South-East Asia for more than half a century. Their form of Buddhism was less remote from South-East Asian forms and they felt the same need as South-East Asian to fit Buddhism into a national revival.

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The China Quarterly , Volume 22 , June 1965 , pp. 143 - 153
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Copyright © The China Quarterly 1965

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