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 …

This article analyzes China's religious diplomacy surrounding its Belt and Road Initiative
(BRI), an interagency effort that serves multiple goals ranging from image cultivation to …

ABSTRACT Throughout its history, Hagia Sophia has been used as an Orthodox church, a
Roman Catholic church, a mosque, and a museum. After a controversial decision in 2020 …

While the economic impact of China's 'Belt and Road'Initiative (BRI) in Sri Lanka has been
closely monitored in recent years, few studies have focused on the role of China's Buddhist …

The article presents an ethnography of Buddhist practice groups in Wutong village, an urban
village in the Shenzhen metropolis area, relating to the village's predicament through the …

Religiosity appears to be rising in China. However, this trend hides the extent of fluidity in
religious beliefs and behaviors. Within‐person changes in religiosity across time are not …

Résumé Dans cet article, je décris dans un premier temps l'étendue de l'influence du
bouddhisme à Taïwan, en présentant quelques données sur l'importance démographique …

This chapter explores the concept of religious soft disempowerment, where religious actions
and, the incorporation of religious principles of a sacred site into cultural diplomatic efforts …

For quite some time now, it would seem, no major history of Buddhism in China has been
produced in English or in other Western languages. 1 The fact is no less intriguing than it …

This article offers the first critical genealogy of scholarship on the category of “global
Buddhism” and its related literature. The category was first theorized around the turn of the …