Ester Bianchi, Ph.D. (2003), University of Venice and École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE), is Associate Professor at Perugia University. She authored The Iron Statue Monastery, Tiexiangsi: A Buddhist Nunnery of Tibetan Tradition in Contemporary China (2001) and a translation of the Gaoseng Faxian zhuan (2013). Daniela Campo, Ph.D. (2011), École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE), is Associate Professor at the University of Strasbourg. She is the author of La construction de la sainteté dans la Chine moderne: la vie du maître bouddhiste Xuyun (2013).

• 9789004533455AcknowledgmentList of Figures and TablesNotes on ContributorsIntroductionPart 1 Questioning Monastic Identity: Vinaya and Authenticity1 Vinaya Master Hongyi’s 弘一 Vinaya ProblemRaoul Birnbaum2 Retaking the Monastic Precepts: Shanghai Lay Buddhists’ Struggle for the Authenticity of Monkhood in the 1980sZhe Ji 汲喆Part 2 Adjusting the Vinaya: Ordination Procedures3 Discipline and Enlightenment: Hanyue Fazang 漢月法藏 (1573–1635) and the Spread of the Triple Platform Ordination Ceremony in Seventeenth-Century ChinaJiang Wu 吳疆4 Authenticity and Authority: Dual Ordination in Post-war TaiwanYu-chen Li 李玉珍Part 3 Mahāyāna Vinaya: Bodhisattva Precepts and Chinese Monastic Codes5 Yogācāra Bodhisattva Precepts in Twentieth Century China: Reevaluating Rules and Commitments in the Light of ModernityEster Bianchi6 Changing Attitudes to the Precepts in Modern Taiwan: The Debate between Brahmā’s Net Precepts and Yogācāra PreceptsPei-ying Lin 林佩瑩7 Buddhist Monastic Regulations in Contemporary China: Adapting the Rules to a Changing Social and Political ContextDaniela CampoPart 4 Vinaya Specifics in the Modern World: Body Movement and Sport Activities8 Body Movement and Sport Activities: A Buddhist Normative Perspective from India to ChinaAnn Heirman and Tzu-Lung Chiu 邱子倫9 Physical Exercise and Sporting Activities in Contemporary Taiwanese and Mainland Chinese Buddhist MonasteriesTzu-Lung Chiu 邱子倫 and Ann HeirmanReferencesIndex

"This volume employs a multidisciplinary approach, with contributors ranging from historians of religion, philologists, anthropologists, and sociologists as well as a long-term diachronic perspective. Given the wealth of studies pertaining to the vinaya in the twentieth century, it is surprising that the Chinese context is comparatively neglected. This volume succeeds in filling this gap and would be of immense use to those interested in Chinese Buddhism or the broader field of vinaya studies." - Joseph Chadwin, Religous Studies Review, 49/4 (2023).