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1 online resource (xv, 188 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-179) and index. |
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Print version record. |
| Summary |
"De Vido shows an intimate familiarity with both her book's subjects and the social and cultural context in which they live and practice."--Beata Grant, author of Eminent Nuns: Women Chan Masters of Seventeenth-Century China --Book Jacket. |
| Contents |
Taiwan's Buddhist Nuns ; Taiwan's Buddhist Nuns; Contents; List of Maps and Illustrations; Preface; Credits and Acknowledgments; Note on Romanizations and Names; Introduction; Chapter 1: Th e Infinite Worlds of Taiwan's Buddhist Nuns1; Chapter 2: An Audience with Master Zhengyan1; Chapter 3: "Project Hope": The Ciji Compassion-Relief Foundation's Post-'9.21 Earthquake' School Reconstruction Plan in Taiwan1; Chapter 4: The Women of Ciji: Nuns, Laypeople, and the Bodhisattva Guanyin. |
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Chapter 5: Jueshu renhua-"Cultivating Buddhist Leaders, Awakening Humanity's Essence through Education": The Nuns of Luminary Buddhist InstituteChapter 6: "Buddhism for the Human Realm" and Women; Conclusion: Buddhism, Women, and Civil Society in Taiwan; Notes; Glossary of Selected Chinese Characters; Bibliography; Index. |
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Buddhist nuns -- Taiwan.
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Women in Buddhism -- Taiwan.
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RELIGION -- Buddhism -- General.
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Buddhist nuns. (OCoLC)fst00840248
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Women in Buddhism. (OCoLC)fst01177785
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Taiwan. (OCoLC)fst01207854
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: DeVido, Elise Anne. Taiwan's Buddhist nuns. Albany : SUNY Press, ©2010 9781438431475 (DLC) 2009034300 (OCoLC)433055440 |
| ISBN |
9781441668257 (electronic bk.) |
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144166825X (electronic bk.) |
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