Heart of Buddha, Heart of China

The Life of Tanxu, a Twentieth Century Monk

James Carter (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

240 Seiten

2014
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-936759-7 (ISBN)

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James Carter, accessing previously untapped sources, tells the story of Tanxu's life and gives first-person immediacy to one of the most turbulent periods in Chinese history.

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. Heart of Buddha, Heart of China traces Tanxu's journey from his birth in 1875 to his death in 1963. Through Tanxu's life we come to know one of the most turbulent periods in Chinese history as it moved from empire to republic. James Carter draws on archives and interviews to provide a book that is part travelogue, part history, and part biography.

James Carter is Professor of History at Saint Joseph's University, in Philadelphia. He has lived and traveled widely in China, is the author of several books and articles on modern China, and is the editor of the journal Twentieth-Century China. He is also past president of the Historical Society for Twentieth-Century China.

Prologue: The Present Past ; Chapter One: Not Far From Anywhere ; Chapter Two: Leaving Home ; Chapter Three: New Worlds ; Chapter Four: Family ; Chapter Five: Conditioned Arising ; Chapter Six: Ice and Fire ; Chapter Seven: Famine and Flight ; Chapter Eight: Qingdao ; Chapter Nine: Life During Wartime ; Chapter Ten: Forward to the Past ; Epilogue: The Past in the Present

Zusatzinfo	3 illus.
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	231 x 155 mm
Gewicht	340 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-19-936759-0 / 0199367590
ISBN-13	978-0-19-936759-7 / 9780199367597
Zustand	Neuware