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Hardcover Praying for Power: Buddhism and the Formation of Gentry Society in Late-Ming China Book
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ISBN: 0674697758

ISBN13: 9780674697751

Praying for Power: Buddhism and the Formation of Gentry Society in Late-Ming China

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In seventeenth- and eighteenth-century China, Buddhists and Confucians alike flooded local Buddhist monasteries with donations. As gentry numbers grew faster than the imperial bureaucracy, traditional Confucian careers were closed to many; but visible philanthropy could publicize elite status outside the state realm. Actively sought by fundraising abbots, such patronage affected institutional Buddhism.

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