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Praying for Power: Buddhism and the Formation of Gentry Society in Late-Ming China |
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Brook, Timothy (著)
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| Date | 1993 |
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| Pages | 403 |
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| Publisher | Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University and Harvard-Yenching Institute |
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| Location | Cambridge, MA, US [劍橋, 麻薩諸塞州, 美國] |
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| Series | Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series |
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| Series No. | 38 |
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| Content type | 書籍=Book |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Note | Distributed by Harvard University Press |
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| Keyword | Buddhism; Social aspects; China; Gentry; Ming; Power |
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| Abstract | 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 to Ming Neo-Confucianism, the growth of tourism to Buddhist sites, and the mechanisms and motives for charitable donations, Timothy Brook studies three widely separated and economically dissimilar counties. He draws on rich data in monastic gazetteers to examine the patterns and social consequences of patronage. |
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| Table of contents | The Passionate Life of Zhang Dai 37
Accommodating Buddhism 54
Buddhist Observances and Rituals 96
The Organization of Lay Associations 103
Gentry Uses of Monastic Space 114
The Patrons of Dinghu Mountain 137
How the Gentry Patronized Monasteries 159
Why the Gentry Patronized Monasteries 185
The Zhucheng Gentry 236
Zhucheng Monastic Patronage 242
Dangyang County Hubei 278
The Separation of State and Society 311
Notes 335
Bibliography 373
Index 393 |
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| ISBN | 0674697758 (hardcover); 9780674697751 (hardcover) |
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| Related reviews | - Book Review: Praying for Power: Buddhism and the Formation of Gentry Society in Late-Ming China by Timothy Brook / Barrett, T. H. (評論)
- Book Review: Praying for Power: Buddhism and the Formation of Gentry Society in Late-Ming China. By Timothy Brook / Overmyer, Daniel L. (評論)
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| Created date | 2006.03.14 |
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| Modified date | 2023.10.17 |
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