Seniorenwoche (Seniors’ Week), Kloster Schöntal (Jagst)

Zbigniew Wesołowski SVD (Wei Siqi 魏思齊) :

„Chinas Buddhismus im Spannungsfeld zwischen Vergangenheit und Gegenwart“ (Chinese Buddhism in Tension between Past and Present)


Vortrag / Lecture: “Chinas Buddhismus im Spannungsfeld zwischen Vergangenheit und Gegenwart” (Chinese Buddhism in Tension between Past and Present) presented at Seniorenwoche (Seniors’ Week), Kloster Schöntal (Jagst), 9–13, 2022

Organizer: Katholisch-soziales Bildungswerk Stuttgart e.V. – Katholische Arbeitnehmer-Bewegung


Abstract

One of the indirect tasks and objectives of the Monumenta Serica Institute is popularization of the knowledge about China among a broader spectrum of society in Germany. To this purpose suited this lecture. The content of it was as follows: Introduction: Buddhism comes from India to China; Development of Buddhism in China and its major schools and the problem of the Sinicization of Buddhism in China; Buddhism under Communism since 1949: Suppression and Reconstruction, and Buddhism under Xi Jinping (since 2013).