Educating monks
Subtitle: minority Buddhism on China's southwest border
By: Thomas A. Borchert
Series: Contemporary Buddhism; Contemporary Buddhism
Publisher: University of Hawaiʻi Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9780824866488
Subjects: Religion; Buddhism and politics; Buddhist education; Education; Buddhist monks; Monastic and religious life (Buddhism)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Local monks in Sipsongpanna; title: Fortune-telling and false monks : defining and governing religion; title: Monks on the move : Dai-Lue monastic networks; title: Learning to read in village temples and Chinese public schools; title: The fragility of autonomy : curricular education at Dhamma schools; title: Transnational Buddhist education and the limits of the Buddhist ethnoscape.