Chün-fang Yü is Sheng Yen Professor Emerita of Chinese Buddhism in the Departments of Religion and East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University. She is the author or editor of a number of books, including Kuan-yin, the Chinese Transformation of Avalokitesvara (Columbia, 2001), Passing the Light: The Incense Light Community and Buddhist Nuns in Contemporary Taiwan (2013), and Chinese Buddhism: A Thematic History (2020). She is the former editor of the Sheng Yen Series in Chinese Buddhist Studies at Columbia University Press.

The Renewal of Buddhism in China changed my understanding of Chinese Buddhism when it was first published forty years ago. It revealed, as it still does, that Buddhism is not just an idea but a social movement that has been shaped by real people working in the real world. A classic that is still a classic.

• Foreword by Daniel B. StevensonPreface to the Fortieth Anniversary EditionPreface to the Original EditionOn the Illustrations1. Introduction2. Zhuhong’s Life and Major Works3. Zhuhong and the Joint Practice of Pure Land and Chan4. Zhuhong and the Late Ming Lay Buddhist Movement5. Syncretism in Action: Morality Books and The Record of Self-knowledge6. The Condition of the Monastic Order in the Late Ming7. Internal Causes of Monastic Decline in the Ming Dynasty8. Zhuhong’s Monastic Reform: The Yunqi Monastery9. ConclusionAppendix 1. A Translation of The Record of Self-knowledgeAppendix 2. Personnel at Yunqi and Their DutiesAppendix 3. Regulations Regarding Good Deeds and Punishments at YunqiNotesGlossaryBibliographyIndex

Chün-fang Yü is Sheng Yen Professor Emerita of Chinese Buddhism in the Departments of Religion and East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University. She is the author or editor of a number of books, including Kuan-yin, the Chinese Transformation of Avalokitesvara (Columbia, 2001), Passing the Light: The Incense Light Community and Buddhist Nuns in Contemporary Taiwan (2013), and Chinese Buddhism: A Thematic History (2020). She is the former editor of the Sheng Yen Series in Chinese Buddhist Studies at Columbia University Press.

The Renewal of Buddhism in China changed my understanding of Chinese Buddhism when it was first published forty years ago. It revealed, as it still does, that Buddhism is not just an idea but a social movement that has been shaped by real people working in the real world. A classic that is still a classic.

• Foreword by Daniel B. StevensonPreface to the Fortieth Anniversary EditionPreface to the Original EditionOn the Illustrations1. Introduction2. Zhuhong’s Life and Major Works3. Zhuhong and the Joint Practice of Pure Land and Chan4. Zhuhong and the Late Ming Lay Buddhist Movement5. Syncretism in Action: Morality Books and The Record of Self-knowledge6. The Condition of the Monastic Order in the Late Ming7. Internal Causes of Monastic Decline in the Ming Dynasty8. Zhuhong’s Monastic Reform: The Yunqi Monastery9. ConclusionAppendix 1. A Translation of The Record of Self-knowledgeAppendix 2. Personnel at Yunqi and Their DutiesAppendix 3. Regulations Regarding Good Deeds and Punishments at YunqiNotesGlossaryBibliographyIndex

Chün-fang Yü is Sheng Yen Professor Emerita of Chinese Buddhism in the Departments of Religion and East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University. She is the author or editor of a number of books, including Kuan-yin, the Chinese Transformation of Avalokitesvara (Columbia, 2001), Passing the Light: The Incense Light Community and Buddhist Nuns in Contemporary Taiwan (2013), and Chinese Buddhism: A Thematic History (2020). She is the former editor of the Sheng Yen Series in Chinese Buddhist Studies at Columbia University Press.

The Renewal of Buddhism in China changed my understanding of Chinese Buddhism when it was first published forty years ago. It revealed, as it still does, that Buddhism is not just an idea but a social movement that has been shaped by real people working in the real world. A classic that is still a classic.

• Foreword by Daniel B. StevensonPreface to the Fortieth Anniversary EditionPreface to the Original EditionOn the Illustrations1. Introduction2. Zhuhong’s Life and Major Works3. Zhuhong and the Joint Practice of Pure Land and Chan4. Zhuhong and the Late Ming Lay Buddhist Movement5. Syncretism in Action: Morality Books and The Record of Self-knowledge6. The Condition of the Monastic Order in the Late Ming7. Internal Causes of Monastic Decline in the Ming Dynasty8. Zhuhong’s Monastic Reform: The Yunqi Monastery9. ConclusionAppendix 1. A Translation of The Record of Self-knowledgeAppendix 2. Personnel at Yunqi and Their DutiesAppendix 3. Regulations Regarding Good Deeds and Punishments at YunqiNotesGlossaryBibliographyIndex