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Article: Buddhism in Taiwan: Religion and the State, 1660-1990.(Review)
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- China Review International
- Article date:
- March 22, 2001
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Charles Brewer Jones. Buddhism in Taiwan: Religion and the State, 1660-1990. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1999. xvii, 259 Pp. Hardcover
$46.00, ISBN 0-8248-2061-4.
In the three decades since Holmes Welch wrote his pioneering studies of the formal organization and political history of Buddhism in China's Republican and Communist periods, few scholars have pursued this institutional focus. [1] It was therefore with a sense of keen anticipation that I began reading Charles Jones' study of Buddhism in Taiwan, the subtitle of which had caught my eye. I was rewarded with a fascinating account of the evolution of Buddhism in Taiwan over the course of ...
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