| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 188 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-179) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Buddhist nuns -- Taiwan
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Women in Buddhism -- Taiwan
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RELIGION -- Buddhism -- General.
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Buddhist nuns
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Women in Buddhism
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Taiwan
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781441668257 |
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144166825X |
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1438431473 |
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9781438431475 |
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1438431481 |
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9781438431482 |
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143843149X |
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9781438431499 |
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