Establishing a Pure Land on Earth: The Foguang Buddhist Perspective on Modernization and Globalization (Topics in Contemporary Buddhism)
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Book
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ISBN 10
0824827465
ISBN 13
9780824827465
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Publication Year
2004
Publisher
Pages
371 pages
Subject
Foguang shan si (Kao-hsiung hsien, Taiwan) Buddhism Taiwan.
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Abstract
A mountain monastery in an urban society -- Master Xingyun : Foguang patriarch -- Foguang humanistic Buddhism -- Humanistic Buddhism in practice -- Cultivating talent through education -- Cultivating faith through discipline -- Institutionalizing Buddhism -- Perpetuating traditional modernism -- Globalizing Chinese culture, localizing Buddhist teachings -- Globalizing and localizing : three case studies.
Description
xvii, 371 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Biblio Notes
54446443
Number of Copies
1
