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Through a detailed examination of Tang’s syncretic vision, the study investigates how Tang syncretized Confucianism and Buddhism, Tang’s role in the debates over the authenticity of the Awakening of Faith in Mahāyāna text and how it is interconnected with his perspective on modernity, science, and nationalism, and his socio-cultural concept of the “Eastern Pure Land” with a Buddhist identity as a practitioner of Pure Land and Consciousness-only dual cultivation."]},{"key":"dc:format","label":"Dc Format","values":["application/pdf"]},{"key":"dc:title","label":"Title","values":["Syncretic and engaged Buddhist thought in early republican China: Tang Dayuan’s vision (1910-1930s)"]}]}],"canonical_facts":{"dc:contributor":["Chow, Kai-wing","Chen, Jingling","Callahan, Christopher"],"dc:creator":["Zhang, Tengyun"],"dc:date":["2024-07-17","2024-08"],"dc:description":["Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2026-08-01","The student, Tengyun Zhang, accepted the attached license on 2024-07-09 at 16:07.","The student, Tengyun Zhang, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2024-07-09 at 16:24.","This Thesis was approved for publication on 2024-07-17 at 11:10.","DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #21021 on 2025-02-04 at 21:16:44","This thesis explores the intellectual and cultural contributions of Tang Dayuan (1885? -1941), an understudied Confucian-Buddhist scholar in early 20th-century China. 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