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Living Bodhisattvas- Historical and Textual Sources of Practitioner Identity in the Tzu Chi School of Buddhism.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Living Bodhisattvas- Historical and Textual Sources of Practitioner Identity in the Tzu Chi School of Buddhism./
Author:	Freese, Allen Courtland.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2019,
Description:	106 p.
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 81-02.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International81-02.
Subject:	Religion. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=13863590
ISBN:	9781085577052

Living Bodhisattvas- Historical and Textual Sources of Practitioner Identity in the Tzu Chi School of Buddhism.
Freese, Allen Courtland.

Living Bodhisattvas- Historical and Textual Sources of Practitioner Identity in the Tzu Chi School of Buddhism. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2019 - 106 p.

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 81-02.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Hawai'i at Manoa, 2019.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

Taiwan's Buddhist Tzu Chi Foundation is a charitable organization founded on the teachings of Humanistic Buddhism, which traces its history most directly to the Chinese Chan tradition. For practitioners of the Tzu Chi school of Buddhism, spiritual practice most often takes the form of regular participation in a variety of charitable activities. To advance the aims of her organization, Tzu Chi's founder, Dharma Master Cheng Yen, makes use of traditional Buddhist teachings to inspire and mobilize her massive international network of volunteers. These volunteers, whom she calls Living Bodhisattvas, are encouraged to adopt the values she emphasizes through her teachings and to integrate them into their identity as Tzu Chi practitioners. This thesis provides an examination of the construction of this practitioner identity, from its historical roots to the implications it holds for the lives of the everyday followers of Tzu Chi in Taiwan. A range of moral values are identified, followed by an analysis of how they are adapted to form the cohesive religious identity of Tzu Chi's Living Bodhisattva-practitioners. In the final analysis, this examination is intended to suggest how this form of practitioner identity contributes to the spirit and success of the organization as a whole. Chapter I begins with a history of Humanistic Buddhism, followed by an analysis of Cheng Yen's interpretation of Buddhist doctrine in Chapter II, and a survey in Chapter III of biographical narratives from Tzu Chi's publications, through which the organization's values are projected onto the lives of real practitioners.

ISBN: 9781085577052Subjects--Topical Terms:

516493
Religion.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Bodhisattva

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