Educating Monks: Minority Buddhism on China's Southwest Border

by Thomas A Borchert and Thomas A. Borchert

Book Overview

Most studies of Buddhist communities tend to be limited to villages, individual temple communities, or a single national community. Buddhist monastics, however, cross a number of these different framings: They are part of local communities, are governed through national legal frameworks, and participate in both national and transnational Buddhist networks. Educating Monks makes visible the ways Buddhist communities are shaped by all of the above--collectively...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824866495
• ISBN13: 9780824866495
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"