TY - BOOK ID - 129443229 TI - Anarchy in the pure land : reinventing the cult of Maitreya in modern Chinese Buddhism PY - 2017 SN - 0190491167 0190491183 0190848073 PB - New York, NY : Oxford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Buddhist cults KW - Maitreyanātha. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:129443229 AB - 'Anarchy in the Pure Land' investigates the cult of Maitreya, the future Buddha, promoted by the Chinese Buddhist reform movement spearheaded by Taixu. The cult presents an apparent anomaly: it shows precisely the kind of concern for ritual, supernatural beings, and the afterlife that the reformers supposedly rejected in the name of 'modernity'. ER -