[PDF] The White Lotus Society And The White Lotus Teachings eBook

Author : Barend ter Haar
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 33,16 MB
Release : 2021-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9004488065

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This book provides a new hypothesis for understanding the real nature of the term White Lotus Teachings. The author argues that there are actually two different phenomena covered by similar terms: from c. 1130 until 1400, a real lay Buddhist movement existed, which can be called the White Lotus movement. It enjoyed the respect of contemporary literati and religious elites. The movement used the autonym White Lotus Society, which came to be prohibited in the early Ming and was discarded as a result. After 1525, the name reappeared in the form White Lotus Teachings, but now only as a derogatory label, used by officials and literati rather than by believers themselves. As a result of this hypothesis, the history of the "White Lotus Teachings" changes from one of religious groups and magicians into one of elite ideology and religious persecution. The book is therefore important both for historians and anthropologists of Chinese religion and society, and for comparative historians interested in the ideological and social construction of "heterodoxy".

Author : Jonathan Anxin
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 44,80 MB
Release : 2011-08-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781507541524

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Banned For Hundreds Of Years, The Original Teachings Of The White Lotus Society from China. This material brings to light the banned teachings of the White Lotus society which explain: +The Ultimate Nature Of Reality +The Hidden History Of Religions +The Great Conspiracy Of History Zhao An Xin also provides full instructions for the practice of White Lotus, including the Dragon Flower Meeting. This material has been banned in China, and much of it has been banned for the past 800 years. This work has not been translated into English or outside of the Chinese language previously, and is the only source to get a high level understanding of not only White Lotus Society, but also Taoism, Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism and Islam.

Author : Ji Zhang
Publisher : Royal Collection of Imperi
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 36,92 MB
Release : 2020-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781487801748

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Handscroll; Ink on paper; 755cm(width)*22cm(height) The painting recounts the story of Master Huiyuan of the Eastern Jin Dynasty establishing the White Lotus Society in the Donglin Temple at Mount Lu. The White Lotus Society was a social organization that originated from the doctrines of ancient Chinese religion. The teachings of the Society included paying respect to the Buddha, chanting scriptures, and pursuing the afterlife in the Buddhist Pure Land in the west. Because the white lotus serves as a symbol of the Buddhist Nirvana, and there is a lotus pond at the Donglin Temple, the society was named for the white lotus growing there. In painting the figures, Zhang adopted the classical line drawing style, which produced lively images. In painting the rocks, he first outlined the basic composition with ink then applied texture strokes, reflecting a perfect balance between dark and light and presenting the depth of the gorge, the serenity of the path, and the steepness of the rocks. In painting the trees, he used thick brushes for the trunks and thin brushes for the branches and leaves, in a style known as "falcon talons." By applying such techniques, the trees are rendered vigorous yet graceful.

Author : Zhao An Xin
Publisher :
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 41,42 MB
Release : 2011-04-13
Category :
ISBN : 9781461092407

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Banned For Hundreds Of Years, The Original Teachings Of The White Lotus Society from China.This material brings to light the banned teachings of the White Lotus society which explain:+The Ultimate Nature Of Reality+The Hidden History Of Religions+The Great Conspiracy Of HistoryZhao An Xin also provides full instructions for the practice of White Lotus, including the Dragon Flower Meeting.This material has been banned in China, and much of it has been banned for the past 800 years. This work has not been translated into English or outside of the Chinese language previously, and is the only source to get a high level understanding of not only White Lotus Society, but also Taoism, Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism and Islam.

Author : Jamgon Mipham
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 50,32 MB
Release : 2007-12-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0834825678

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The commentary translated in these pages is unusual and rare. But if the commentary is a rarity, its subject matter—the seven-line invocation of Padmasambhava—is one of the best-known prayers in the Tibetan Buddhist world. The overall significance of the Seven-Line Prayer is perhaps best appreciated in relation to a practice called guru-yoga, or "union with the nature of the guru." The purpose of guru-yoga is to purify and deepen the student's relationship with his or her teacher. It is introduced as one of the preliminary practices, and it remains crucial—in fact, its importance increases—as one progresses through the more advanced levels of the tantric path. The cultivation of devotion to the guru and the blending of one's mind with his or her enlightened mind is, in the words of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, "the most vital and necessary of all practices and is in itself the surest and fastest way to reach the goal of enlightenment." Regarding the origin of this commentary, Mipham refers in the colophon to an event that triggered the abrupt appearance in his mind of the hidden meaning of the prayer. It is interesting to note that the language Mipham uses suggests that the commentary itself is not an ordinary composition but perhaps a treasure teaching, specifically a "mind-treasure" or gongter.

Author : Yingcong Dai
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 665 pages
File Size : 29,40 MB
Release : 2019-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0295745460

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A CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE The White Lotus War (1796–1804) in central China marked the end of the Qing dynasty’s golden age and the fatal weakening of the imperial system itself. What started as a local rebellion grew into a serious political crisis, as the central government was no longer able to operate its military machine. Yingcong Dai’s comprehensive investigation reveals that the White Lotus rebels would have remained a relatively minor threat, if not for the Qing’s ill-managed response. Dai shows that the officials in charge of the suppression campaign were half-hearted about the fight and took advantage of the campaign to pursue personal gains. She challenges assumptions that the Qing relied upon local militias to exterminate the rebels, showing instead that the hiring of civilians became a pretext for misappropriation of war funds, resulting in the devastatingly high cost of the war. The mishandled demilitarization of the militiamen prolonged the hostilities when many of the dismissed troops turned into rebels themselves. The war’s long-term impact presaged the beginning of the disintegration of the Qing in the mid-nineteenth century and eruptions of the Taiping Rebellion and other uprisings. The White Lotus War will interest students and scholars of late imperial and modern Chinese history, as well as history buffs interested in the warfare of the early modern world.