Educating Monks

Minority Buddhism on China’s Southwest Border

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ID8112415
AuthorsThomas Borchert (corresponding author), Thomas A Borchert
EditorsMark Michael Rowe
Year2017
Pages272
Publication date2017-05-31
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueEducating Monks (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherUniversity of Hawaii Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1515/9780824866525
OpenAlexW2971039134
ISBN9780824866525
Open LibraryOL29348218M
LanguageEN
Citations received14

Most studies of Buddhist communities tend to be limited to villages, individual temple communities, or a single national community. Buddhist monastics, however, cross a number of these different framings: They are part of local communities, are governed through national legal frameworks, and participate in both national and transnational Buddhist networks. Educating Monks makes visible the ways Buddhist communities are shaped by all of the above-collectively and often simultaneously. Educating Monks examines a minority Buddhist community in Sipsongpannā, a region located on China's southwest border with Myanmar and Laos. Its people, the Dai-lue, are "double minorities": They are recognized by the Chinese state as part of a minority group, and they practice Theravāda Buddhism, a minority form within China, where Mahāyāna Buddhism is the norm

Ancient history · Archaeology · Buddhism · China · Geography · Political science · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · China's Ethnic Minorities and Relations · Chinese history and philosophy · History · Buddhism and politics · Buddhist education · Buddhist monasticism and religious orders · Buddhist monks · china · Education · Monastic and religious life (Buddhism) · Monks · Religion · Religion and politics · Xishuangbanna Daizu Zizhizhou

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