Baizhuang School

The Baizhuang School ( Chinese  擺 莊 派  /  摆 庄 派 , Pinyin Baizhuang pai , English Baizhuang Sect ) is one of the four schools of Southern (or Theravāda - or Pali -) Buddhism (Chinese Shangzuobu Fojiao or Nanchuan Fojiao ) in Yunnan . It is also called the Genglong School (Chinese: Genglong pai耿 龙 派) or Siyuan School (Chinese: Siyuan pai寺院( ) (after its Chinese names) . The belief was in the mid -Ming period from Burma introduced and is in the of the peoples of the Dai , Deang (Benglong) and Achang inhabited areas of Dehong and Baoshan in China spread Yunnan Province. As in the run school ( 潤 派  /  润 派 , Run pai , English Run Sect ) the monk and priesthood is very well developed and its influence is very strong.

literature

• Ling Haicheng: Buddhism in China , Beijing, China Intercontinental Press 2004 ( Zhongguo Fojiao (chin.) )
• James Stuart Olson : An ethnohistorical dictionary of China , Westport 1998

See also

• Sthaviravāda

Web links

• A Cultural Interpretation of the Religious and Sacrificial Rites of the Dai Nationality: The Buddhist Sects - English
• Yunnan diqu Shangzuobu Fojiao (The Sthaviravāda Buddhism in Yunnan) - Chinese
• Foxue dacidian: Baizhuang pai - Chinese
• Baizhuang pai - Chinese
• Daizu fojiao (The Dai Buddhism) - Chinese

Footnotes

1. ↑ All names also in the following according to the Chinese names.
2. ↑ The four schools are called (in Chinese) Run pai润 派, Baizhuang pai摆 庄 派, Duolie pai多 列 派 and Zuodi pai左 抵 派 (or Ruen, Baizhhung, Dolie and Zodi according to Olson, p. 54).
3. ↑ Ling, Zhongguo Fojiao 2004, ISBN 7508503988 , p. 91 (chin.)
4. ↑ wuys.com: "Yunnan diqu Shangzuobu Fojiao" (found on October 5, 2009)