Screen LibraryHeart of Buddha, heart of China：the life of Tanxu, a twentieth-century monk
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Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New York |
| Publication Dates: | 2011. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | viii, 221 p.: map ; 25 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780195398854 (hardcover) 0195398858 (hardcover) |
| Index Number: | B949 |
| CLC: | B949.92 |
| Call Number: | B949.92/C323 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-210) and index. Prologue : The present past -- Not far from anywhere -- Leaving home -- New worlds -- Family -- Conditioned arising -- Ice and fire -- Famine and flight -- Qingdao -- Life during wartime -- Forward to the past -- Epilogue : the past in the present. The Buddhist monk Tanxu surmounted extraordinary obstacles--poverty, wars, famine, and foreign occupation--to become one of the most prominent monks in China, founding numerous temples and schools, and attracting crowds of students and disciples wherever he went. Now, in Heart of Buddha, Heart of China, James Carter draws on untapped archival materials to provide a book that is part travelogue, part history, and part biography of this remarkable man. This revealing biography shows a Chinese man, neither an intellectual nor a peasant, trying to reconcile his desire for a bold and activist Chi |