The Rise of Tzu Chi

The Making of a Global Buddhist Movement

Chengpang Lee (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

276 Seiten

2025
University of British Columbia Press (Verlag)
9780774871105 (ISBN)

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With ten million members worldwide, Tzu Chi has influence unmatched by most East Asian religious and non-profit organizations. The Buddhist foundation was established in Taiwan in 1966 by nun Cheng Yen and a group of laywomen. As with most religious movements, its success is often attributed to a charismatic leader, but The Rise of Tzu Chi offers a strikingly new analysis. Chengpang Lee traces Tzu Chi's apparently contradictory trajectory. Although authority is centralized, it is not authoritarian. Each unit has significant autonomy, resulting in an exceptional array of charitable initiatives: the world's first crowdfunded hospital, a Taiwan-wide recycling system, Asia's most effective bone marrow bank, a new university, and a global medical humanitarian team. Lee convincingly demonstrates that its unique capacity to synthesize religious and lay leadership has allowed Tzu Chi to continuously integrate heterogeneous elements. The Rise of Tzu Chi shows us a dynamic Asian religious movement with diversity at the root of its success.

Chengpang Lee is a professor in the School of Sociology at Central China Normal University in Wuhan, China. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Chinese public policy at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard Kennedy School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and serves on the boards of several associations focused on public health, East Asian geopolitics, and knowledge production.

1 Encountering Tzu Chi in a Peripheral Town

2 The Back Mountain

3 The Young Nun and Her Followers

4 Forging the Organization

5 Buddha as a Doctor

6 The Power of the Hospital

7 The Globalization of Tzu Chi

8 Opportunities and Challenges in the New Era

Notes; References; Index

Erscheinungsdatum	01.11.2025
Zusatzinfo	11 b&w photos, 12 tables, 7 charts, 2 maps
Verlagsort	Vancouver
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	420 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-13	9780774871105 / 9780774871105
Zustand	Neuware