The iron statue monastery
Subtitle: Tiexiangsi : a Buddhist nunnery of Tibetan tradition in contermporary China
By: Ester Bianchi.
Series: Orientalia venetiana -- 10
Publisher: Leo S. Olschki Editore
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Firenze
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
Subjects: Tiexiang si (Chengdu, China); Monastic and religious life (Buddhism) -- China; Buddhist monasticism and religious orders for women -- China
Notes: Based on author's graduation thesis "Tiexiangsi: a female Buddhist monastery in contemporary China", written at the Department of East Asia Studies of the Caʼ Foscoari University of Venice, Italy.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-206) and indexes.