Passing the Light: The Incense Light Community and Buddhist Nuns in Contemporary Taiwan: 11 (Topics in Contemporary Buddhism) - Hardcover

Yeu, Cheun-Fang

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0824836588 ISBN 13: 9780824836580

Verlag: University of Hawaii Press, 2013

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Book by Yeu CheunFang

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Reseña del editor:

Taiwanese nuns today are highly educated and greatly outnumber monks, characteristics that are unprecedented in the history of Chinese Buddhism. Passing the Light is the first in-depth case study of the Incense Light community (Xiangguang), which was founded in 1974 and remains a small but influential order of highly educated nuns who dedicate themselves to teaching Buddhism to lay adults. This engaging study enriches the literature on the history of Buddhist nuns, seminaries, and education, and will find an appreciative audience among scholars and students of Chinese religion, especially Buddhism, as well as those interested in questions of religion and modernity and women and religion.

Biografía del autor:

Chun-fang Yu is Shen Yen Professor of Chinese Buddhist Studies in the Department of Religion and the Department of East Asian Languages and Culture at Columbia University, USA.

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• Verlag: University of Hawaii Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0824836588
• ISBN 13: 9780824836580
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 258