ZHANG RUZHAO (Tiantai Master Benkong) established a reputation as a poet early in life and was actively engaged in many of the political and feminist movements of the 1920s. Disillusioned both politically and personally, she turned to Buddhism and reinvented herself as China’s premier female lay Buddhist scholar, writer, and educator during the 1930s and 1940s. From 1949, she took ordination as a Buddhist nun and was officially designated a lineage holder in the Tiantai lineage. She was persecuted severely during the early years of the Cultural Revolution and died in 1969.
Zhang Ruzhao
ZHANG RUZHAO (Tiantai Master Benkong) established a reputation as a poet early in life and was actively engaged in many of the political and feminist movements of the 1920s. Disillusioned both politically and personally, she turned to Buddhism and reinvented herself as China’s premier female lay Buddhist scholar, writer, and educator during the 1930s and 1940s. From 1949, she took ordination as a Buddhist nun and was officially designated a lineage holder in the Tiantai lineage. She was persecuted severely during the early years of the Cultural Revolution and died in 1969.
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