Timothy Richard''s Response to Mahayana Buddhism :From the Perspective of the Postcolonial Critique of Orientalism
李提摩太对大乘佛教的回应:从后殖民对东方学的批判着眼

Though Timothy Richard is a Christian missionary to China,his response to Mahayana Buddhism aims at neither the conversion of the Chinese Buddhists to Christianity nor the justification of Western colonialism. On the contrary,he aims at building up the friendship and cooperation between Christians and Buddhists in the fight against militarism and the establishment of world peace and justice. Unlike many of his contemporaries,Richard regarded Mahayana Buddhism as a higher Buddhism rather than a distortion of...