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Pages: 365
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-02-29 - Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
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Language: en
Pages: 480
Pages: 480
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017 - Publisher: Pantheon
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Language: en
Pages: 696
Pages: 696
Type: BOOK - Published: 1972 - Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press
Buddhism under Mao shows what kind of a problem Buddhism presented to the Chinese Communists and how they solved it. Relying largely on materials from the Mainl
Language: en
Pages: 426
Pages: 426
Type: BOOK - Published: 1968 - Publisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press
Of all the world's major religions, Chinese Buddhism has probably experienced the most traumatic modernization. Less than forty years have separated the self-co
Language: en
Pages: 452
Pages: 452
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-03-29 - Publisher: Columbia University Press
Modern Chinese history told from a Buddhist perspective restores the vibrant, creative role of religion in postimperial China. It shows how urban Buddhist elite