Sacred economies
Subtitle: Buddhist business and religiosity in Medieval China
By: Michael J. Walsh.
Series: The Sheng Yen series in Chinese Buddhist studies
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9780231148320; 9780231519939
Subjects: Tiantong si (Yin Xian China); Monastic and religious life (Buddhism) -- China; Monasteries, Buddhist -- Economic aspects -- China; Buddhism -- Economic aspects -- China
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Dynastic chronology; title: Monastic identity, Buddhist religiosity and land; title: A square at the center of the world; title: Corporate bodies; title: A culture of estates; title: Grains of sand; title: Cultivating salvation; title: Salvation and survival.