The ritual of “releasing life”(fangsheng 放生), a form of Buddhist cultivation, has been widely
practiced by Chinese Buddhists for at least fifteen centuries. This ritual is currently enjoying …

Despite having been sharply criticized and ridiculed on ecological and/or theological
grounds by people both in and outside the Buddhist community for decades, fangsheng …

Terms, like monuments, long stand unchanged. They might acquire new contexts, attract
new associations, and thus be transformed in content or meaning. Yet the very constancy of …

Buddhist activism in Republican China has received increasing scholarly attention in recent
years (see Katz (康豹) and Goossaert (高萬桑) 2015; Kiely and Jessup 2016). These studies …

Ingmar Heise introduction In this chapter I discuss the transformation of one of the major
religious festivals in the Chinese coastal province of Fujian 福建, which is traditionally known …

There has yet to be a detailed study of death-related discourse and practices across
Buddhist cultures. Such a project would shed light, for example, on the transformations of …

This article contextualizes the decline of the Buddhist death ritual, the Guangdong Yuqie
Yankou (廣東瑜伽焰口), through an examination of external and internal factors that might …

Animal release has long been a component of Buddhist practice, although it is little studied
contemporarily. This paper examines the historical roots of these rituals, arguing that they …

Research on Buddhism in Laos has principally focused on the Buddhism practised by the
Lao, the main population of the country. There are, however, other Buddhist populations (the …

The Buddha's Discourse on the Scripture of the Spell for Saving the Burning-Mouth Hungry
Ghost (Fo shuo qiuba yankou egui tuoluoni jing) is one of three key texts in the development …