Educating Monks : Minority Buddhism on China's Southwest Border /

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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 partici...

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Main Author: Borchert, Thomas A. (Author)
Other Authors: Rowe, Mark Michael (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2018]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
HISTORY / Asia / China
Religion.
Monastic and religious life (Buddhism)
Buddhist monks > Training of.
Buddhist monks.
Buddhist education.
Buddhism and politics.
Buddhism and politics > China > Xishuangbanna Daizu Zizhizhou.
Monastic and religious life (Buddhism) > China > Xishuangbanna Daizu Zizhizhou.
Buddhist education > China > Xishuangbanna Daizu Zizhizhou.
Buddhist monks > China > Xishuangbanna Daizu Zizhizhou.
Buddhist monks > Education > China > Xishuangbanna Daizu Zizhizhou.
China > Xishuangbanna Daizu Zizhizhou.
Xishuangbanna Daizu Zizhizhou (China) > Religion.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Series Editor's Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on Languages, Pronunciation, and Names
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction. Buddhism and Monastic Education, Within and Across Borders in the New Millennium
  • Part 1. Shaping Buddhist Lives in Sipsongpannā
  • 1. Local Monks in Sipsongpannā
  • 2. Fortune-Telling And False Monks: Defining and Governing Religion
  • 3. Monks on the Move. Dai-Lue Monastic Networks
  • Part 2. Educating the Monks of Sipsongpannā
  • 4. Learning to Read in Village Temples and Chinese Public Schools
  • 5. The Fragility of Autonomy: Curricular Education at Dhamma Schools
  • 6. Transnational Buddhist Education and the Limits of the Buddhist Ethnoscape
  • Afterword
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • References
  • Index
  • About The Author

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