Praying for Power: Buddhism and the Formation of Gentry Society in Late-Ming China by Timothy Brook, Harvard University Press

Praying for Power: Buddhism and the Formation of Gentry Society in Late-Ming China

Timothy Brook, Harvard University Press

412 pages • first pub 1994 (editions)

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In 17th and 18th century China, Buddhists and Confucians alike flooded local Buddhist monasteries with donations As gentry numbers grew faster than the imperial bureaucracy, traditional Confucian careers were closed to many; but visible philanthro...

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