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BL
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1008043
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b762413
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DeVido, Elise Anne.
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| Title & Author
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Taiwan's Buddhist nuns /\ Elise Anne Devido.
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| Publication Statement
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Albany :: SUNY Press,, ©2010.
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1 online resource (xv, 188 pages) :: illustrations, maps
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| ISBN
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1438431473
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: 1438431481
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: 143843149X
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: 144166825X
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: 9781438431475
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: 9781438431482
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: 9781438431499
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: 9781441668257
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9781438431475
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9781438431482
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9781438431499
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-179) and index.
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| Contents
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Taiwan's Buddhist Nuns ; Taiwan's Buddhist Nuns; Contents; List of Maps and Illustrations; Preface; Credits and Acknowledgments; Note on Romanizations and Names; Introduction; Chapter 1: Th e Infinite Worlds of Taiwan's Buddhist Nuns1; Chapter 2: An Audience with Master Zhengyan1; Chapter 3: "Project Hope": The Ciji Compassion-Relief Foundation's Post-'9.21 Earthquake' School Reconstruction Plan in Taiwan1; Chapter 4: The Women of Ciji: Nuns, Laypeople, and the Bodhisattva Guanyin.
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Chapter 5: Jueshu renhua-"Cultivating Buddhist Leaders, Awakening Humanity's Essence through Education": The Nuns of Luminary Buddhist InstituteChapter 6: "Buddhism for the Human Realm" and Women; Conclusion: Buddhism, Women, and Civil Society in Taiwan; Notes; Glossary of Selected Chinese Characters; Bibliography; Index.
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| Abstract
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"De Vido shows an intimate familiarity with both her book's subjects and the social and cultural context in which they live and practice."--Beata Grant, author of Eminent Nuns: Women Chan Masters of Seventeenth-Century China --Book Jacket.
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Buddhist nuns-- Taiwan.
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Women in Buddhism-- Taiwan.
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Buddhist nuns.
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RELIGION-- Buddhism-- General.
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Women in Buddhism.
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Taiwan.
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| Dewey Classification
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294.3/657
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| LC Classification
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BQ6160.T28D48 2010eb
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