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Taiwan's Buddhist nuns /

"De Vido shows an intimate familiarity with both her book's subjects and the social and cultural context in which they live and practice."--Beata Grant, author of Eminent Nuns: Women Chan Masters of Seventeenth-Century China --Book Jacket

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: DeVido, Elise Anne
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany : SUNY Press, ©2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Taiwan's Buddhist Nuns ; Taiwan's Buddhist Nuns; Contents; List of Maps and Illustrations; Preface; Credits and Acknowledgments; Note on Romanizations and Names; Introduction; Chapter 1: Th e Infinite Worlds of Taiwan's Buddhist Nuns1; Chapter 2: An Audience with Master Zhengyan1; Chapter 3: "Project Hope": The Ciji Compassion-Relief Foundation's Post-'9.21 Earthquake' School Reconstruction Plan in Taiwan1; Chapter 4: The Women of Ciji: Nuns, Laypeople, and the Bodhisattva Guanyin.
  • Chapter 5: Jueshu renhua-"Cultivating Buddhist Leaders, Awakening Humanity's Essence through Education": The Nuns of Luminary Buddhist InstituteChapter 6: "Buddhism for the Human Realm" and Women; Conclusion: Buddhism, Women, and Civil Society in Taiwan; Notes; Glossary of Selected Chinese Characters; Bibliography; Index.