This study examines the early career of the renowned Buddhologist Lü Cheng as an aspiring revolutionary. My findings reveal that Lü's rhetoric of "aesthetic revolution" both catapulted him into the center of the New Culture Movement and popularized a Buddhist idealism—Yogācāra (consciousness-only school)—among thinkers who sought alternatives social theories.

Related Organizations

University of California System
United States
University of Southern California
United States
Zentral und Hochschulbibliothek Luzern
Switzerland

Keywords

Yogācāra, social philosophy, evolutionism, May Fourth New Culture Movement, Philosophy. Psychology. Religion, aesthetics, B, anti-realism, Buddhist soteriology

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