From Comrades to Bodhisattvas: Moral Dimensions of Lay Buddhist Practice in Contemporary China

by Gareth Fisher

Book Overview

From Comrades to Bodhisattvas is the first book-length study of Han Chinese Buddhism in post-Mao China. Using an ethnographic approach supported by over a decade of field research, it provides an intimate portrait of lay Buddhist practitioners in Beijing who have recently embraced a religion that they were once socialized to see as harmful superstition. The book focuses on the lively discourses and debates that take place among these new practitioners...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824839668
• ISBN13: 9780824839666
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"