Literature for Little Bodhisattvas: Making Buddhist Families in Modern Taiwan

by Natasha Heller

In Literature for Little Bodhisattvas, Natasha Heller makes two key interventions: first, she argues that picturebooks are a new genre of Buddhist writing, and second, she calls attention to an emergent family Buddhism in Taiwan that fashions children as religious subjects through shared attention with adult readers.

Surveying Taiwanese Buddhism from the ground up, Heller explores the changing family dynamics that have made children into...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824897641
• ISBN13: 9780824897642
• Release Date: January 2025
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 258 Pages