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

by Timothy Brook

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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.

After exploring the relation of Buddhism...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0674697758

ISBN13:9780674697751

Release Date:January 1994

Publisher:Harvard University Press

Length:412 Pages

Weight:1.70 lbs.

Dimensions:1.5" x 6.3" x 9.3"

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