Forthcoming:Yinshun and his Exposition of Madhyamaka: New Studies of the Da Zhidu Lun in Twentieth-century China and Taiwan

The monk Yinshun (1906-2005) became well known in the Chinese region, as well as among Western scholars of East Asian Buddhism, for his role of theorizer of the so-called “Buddhism for the Human Realm” (renjian fojiao), the legacy with the reformist monk Taixu (1989-1947), the link to the nun Zhengyan (b.1937, founder of the Tzu Chi Foundation), and his remarkable corpus of writings.This book provides an unprecedented and comprehensive study of ‘the Madhyamaka dimension’ of Yinshun on the basis of the renewed intellectual movements and the twisted social-historical conditions of the twentieth-century.