From Comrades to Bodhisattvas

From Comrades to BodhisattvasFrom Comrades to Bodhisattvas is the first book length study of Han Chinese Buddhism in post Mao China. Supported by over a decade of ethnographic research, it provides an intimate portrait of lay Buddhist practitioners in Beijing who have embraced a religion that they were once socialized to see as harmful superstition. The book focuses on the lively debates that take place among these new practitioners in an unused courtyard of a Beijing temple,

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