Socially Engaged Buddhist Nuns: Activism in Taiwan and North America
The last decades of the twentieth century have been a time of new visibility and social activism for Buddhists in Taiwan and around the world. This paper compares the social engagement of nuns in the Chinese Buddhist tradition in Taiwan and North America. I would like to argue that whereas nuns in T...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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University of Lucerne
2015-02-01
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Series: | Journal of Global Buddhism |
Online Access: | http://www.globalbuddhism.org/jgb/index.php/jgb/article/view/100 |