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Search site. The Merit Economy of Buddhist Publishing in Republican China. Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. The Merit Economy of Buddhist Publishing in Republican China. Venue:. Runcie Room, Faculty of Divinity. Event date:. Monday, 29 April, 2024 - 14:00. Event organiser:. lecture given by Gregory Scott 史瑞戈, University of Manchester. Donations of materials, labour, and/or money in exchange for religious merit have been cornerstones of Buddhism in China since its arrival. In the Republican era (1912-1949), when thousands of Buddhist publications were circulating in China, donations for merit continued to help support the production of some Buddhist books, but many others were funded by fixed and circulating capital from for-profit commercial publishers or (mostly) not-for-profit Buddhist organisations. My presentation will examine evidence from Buddhist publications of the Republican era on how they made use of donations to help fund their work, how donors were recognised and recorded, and how the discourse surrounding merit transformed over this period. My hypothesis is that the longstanding core belief in the merit of publishing Buddhist books was augmented and enhanced by a number of new approaches, made

Search site. East Asia Seminar Series - Professor Araragi Shinzo. Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. East Asia Seminar Series - Professor Araragi Shinzo. Venue:. FAMES Room 8/9. Event date:. Tuesday, 19 February, 2019 - 17:00 to 19:00. 『引揚、定住、残留、「密航」－第二次世界大戦後東アジアにおける人の移動』. “Repatriation, Settlement, ‘Left-behinds’ and ‘Smuggling’;. the racial migrations after W.W.II. in East-Asia”. 蘭 信三(Araragi Shinzo). Sophia University, Tokyo, JAPAN..