This article is a case study of a lay Buddhist community that employs a business model
called “living hall”(Shenghuo guan 生活馆) to facilitate the practice of Tibetan Buddhism …

In recent years, there has been an astonishing revival of religious practices in China.
Looking beyond numerical counts of religious practitioners, temples, and churches …

Wildlife crime presents a growing threat to the integrity of ecological communities. While
campaigns have raised consumer awareness, little is known about the socio-demographic …

This is the first book to explore how religious movements and actors shape and are shaped
by aspects of global city dynamics. Theoretically grounded and empirically informed …

What are the foundational scriptures and major schools for Chinese Buddhists? What
divinities do they worship? What festivals do they celebrate? These are some of the basic …

Based on thorough ethnographic descriptions, this article analyses retirees' collective
activities in Beijing public parks where co-presence and interactions between formerly …

The study of the communicative fabric of the social media life of elite clerics sheds light on
the role that digital technology plays in the processes of re-articulation of their relationship …

隋唐長安· 寺院史料集成 解説篇 [Commentary on the collected historical sources on
Chang'an during the Sui and Tang]. Kyoto: H z kan, 1989. Ouyang Jingwu 歐陽竟無.“Fofa …

The Tiananmen Square proTeST, CulminaTing on June 4, 1989, in state violence against
the student protestors, severely shook the CPC. It subsequently launched the massive …

This book presents a multi-sited ethnographic study of the global development of the
Taiwanese Buddhist order Fo Guang Shan. It explores the order's modern Buddhist social …