| Titre | L'apparition de thèmes anticléricaux dans la polémique anti-bouddhique médiévale | |
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| Auteur | Sylvie Hureau | |
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Revue | Extrême-Orient, Extrême-Occident |
| Numéro | no 24, 2002 L'anticléricalisme en Chine | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | I. Anti-religion et anticléricalisme |
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| Page | 17-29 | |
| Résumé anglais |
The apparition of anticlerical themes in medieval anti-Buddhist polemic
Anti-Buddhist criticism appeared soon after the religion's introduction in China. It was caused both by its novel and complex ideology and by the monks' behaviour, who tried to escape imperial authority and who lived according to rules deemed offensive by public opinion. This article analyses, within the corpus of anti-Buddhist medieval polemical texts, the specifically anticlerical themes, notably concerning the monks' mores and the danger they posed to a state threatened by an erosion of its authority. For a better understanding of the agenda behind such criticism, these polemical texts are compared with the Western anticlerical tradition. The medieval anti-Buddhist rhetoric has been adopted ever since as anticlerical stereotypes, which were instrumental in the state's efforts to control the clergy. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/oroc_0754-5010_2002_num_24_24_1147 |
