Buddhism in Taiwan: Religion and the State, 1660-1990 - Hardcover

Jones, Charles Brewer

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0824820614 ISBN 13: 9780824820619

Publisher: Univ of Hawaii Pr, 1999

Synopsis

Buddhism in Taiwan is the first work in a Western language to examine the institutional and political history of Chinese Buddhism in Taiwan. Tracing Buddhism's development on the island from Qing times through the late 1980s, it seeks to shed light on the ways in which changing social circumstances have impacted Buddhist thought and practice. It looks in particular at a number of significant changes that modernization has brought: the decline in clerical ordinations, the increasing prominence of nuns within the monastic order, the enhanced role of the laity, alterations in the content of lay precepts, the abandonment of funerals as a major source of income, the monastic order's loss of special recognition from the government, and the founding of large, international organizations.

About this title

About the Author:

Charles B. Jones is assistant professor in the Department of Religion and Religious Education at the Catholic University of America.

About this edition

• Publisher: Univ of Hawaii Pr
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0824820614
• ISBN 13: 9780824820619
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304