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Building the Buddhist Revival: Reconstructing Monasteries in Modern China

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Building the Buddhist Revival: Reconstructing Monasteries in Modern China - Scott, Gregory Adam
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Between 1850 and 1966, tens of thousands of Buddhist sacred sites in China were destroyed, victims of targeted destruction, accidental damage, or simply neglect. During the same period, however, many of these sites were reconstructed, a process that involved both rebuilding material structures and reviving religious communities. Gregory Adam Scott argues that over the course of this period monastery reconstruction in China changed drastically. The power to determine whether and how a monastery would be reconstructed, and ...

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Building the Buddhist Revival: Reconstructing Monasteries in Modern China 2020, Oxford University Press, USA

ISBN-13: 9780190930721

Hardcover