Chinese Buddhism in Globalization :
States, Communities, and the Practice of Religion

In the early twenty-first century, Buddhism from China has become increasingly globalized through promotion by the Chinese state and mobilities of people and practices. This project focuses on the period since 2013 when the Chinese leader Xi Jinping asserted China’s great power aspirations by positing the China Dream, Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), and Buddhism as a living Chinese culture to be globally promoted. The project seeks to elucidate the processes of this globalization, local reactions in other countries, and effects on Buddhism and links to China. The hypothesis is that the state promotion varies by such factors as a country’s history of Buddhism, patterns of Chinese migration, strategic interest to China. It is expected that this multi-sited research will a holistic view of the processes, scope, and scale of Chinese Buddhism in globalization.