List of buildings of Pali Buddhism in China

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This is a list of Pali Buddhist structures in China .

The four schools of Southern (or Theravāda - or Pali -) Buddhism (Chinese: Shangzuobu Fojiao or Nanchuan Fojiao ) in Yunnan 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, 1998: 54 / Yon, Pɔitsɔŋ, Tole and Tsoti according to Takahiro Kojima 2012 / Yon (Thai / Lao: Yuan), Pöy Cöng (Burmese: Pwe Kyaung), To Le (Burmese: Taw Nei) and Co Ti (Burmese: Zaw Ti) according to Kojima, Takahiro; Badenoch, Nathan 2013)

Some of the listed structures are on the List of Monuments of the People's Republic of China and on the List of Monuments of Yunnan Province .

Overview

(after Ling, in Chinese spellings)

temple

Pagodas

literature

  • Haicheng Ling: Buddhism in China 2005 ( Online )
  • James Stuart Olson: An ethnohistorical dictionary of China , Westport 1998
  • Takahiro Kojima: Tai Buddhist Practices in Dehong Prefecture, Yunnan, China. 2012, Southeast Asian Studies 1 (3), 395–430 ( preview ; available online on March 11, 2014)
  • Kojima, Takahiro; Badenoch, Nathan: From Tea to Temples and Texts: Transformation of the Interfaces of Upland-Lowland Interaction on the China-Myanmar Border. 2013 Southeast Asian Studies (2013), 2 (1): 96–131 ( online )

See also