Praying for Power: Buddhism and the Formation of Gentry Society in Late-Ming China: 38 (Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series) - Hardcover

Brook, Timothy

 
9780674697751: Praying for Power: Buddhism and the Formation of Gentry Society in Late-Ming China: 38 (Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0674697758 ISBN 13: 9780674697751
Verlag: Harvard University, Asia Center, 1994

Inhaltsangabe

In seventeenth- and eighteenth-century China, Buddhists and Confucians alike flooded local Buddhist monasteries with donations. As gentry numbers grew faster than the imperial bureaucracy, traditional Confucian careers were closed to many; but visible philanthropy could publicize elite status outside the state realm. Actively sought by fundraising abbots, such patronage affected institutional Buddhism.

After exploring the relation of Buddhism to Ming Neo-Confucianism, the growth of tourism to Buddhist sites, and the mechanisms and motives for charitable donations, Timothy Brook studies three widely separated and economically dissimilar counties. He draws on rich data in monastic gazetteers to examine the patterns and social consequences of patronage.

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Timothy Brook is Professor of History and Republic of China Chair at the University of British Columbia.

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Verlag
Harvard University, Asia Center
Erscheinungsdatum
1994
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0674697758
ISBN 13 
9780674697751
Einband
Tapa dura
Anzahl der Seiten
412
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