From Comrades to Bodhisattvas : : Moral Dimensions of Lay Buddhist Practice in Contemporary China / / Gareth Fisher.
From Comrades to Bodhisattvas is the first book-length study of Han Chinese Buddhism in post-Mao China. Using an ethnographic approach supported by over a decade of field research, it provides an intimate portrait of lay Buddhist practitioners in Beijing who have recently embraced a religion that th...
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