Buddhism in Taiwan
Subtitle: religion and the state, 1660-1990
By: Charles Brewer Jones.
Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Honolulu, HI
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
Subjects: Buddhism -- Taiwan -- History.; Religion and state -- Taiwan.
Description: Buddhism in Taiwan is the first work in a Western language to examine the institutional and political history of Chinese Buddhism in Taiwan. Tracing Buddhism's development on the island from Qing times through the late 1980s, it seeks to shed light on the ways in which changing social circumstances have impacted Buddhist thought and practice.

It looks in particular at a number of significant changes that modernization has brought: the decline in clerical ordinations, the increasing prominence of nuns within the monastic order, the enhanced role of the laity, alterations in the content of lay precepts, the abandonment of funerals as a major source of income, the monastic order's loss of special recognition from the government, and the founding of large, international organizations.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-256) and index.