Lotus Blossoms and Purple Clouds: Monastic Buddhism in Post-Mao China

by Brian J Nichols and Brian J. Nichols

Book Overview

Southeast China is a traditional stronghold of Buddhism, but little scholarly attention has been paid to this fact. Brian Nichols's pioneering book, Lotus Blossoms and Purple Clouds, centers on a large Buddhist monastery in Quanzhou and combines ethnographic detail with stimulating analysis to examine religion in post-Mao China. Nichols conducted more than twenty-six months of field research over a fourteen-year period (2005-2019) to develop a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824893492
• ISBN13: 9780824893491
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"