Buddhism in Taiwan: Religion and the state, 1660-1990. (Book reviews).

Buddhist-Christian Studies | January 1, 2001| | Copyright

By Charles B. Jones. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1999. 233 pp.

Charles Jones spent over three years living in Taiwan pursuing the research for this book and for journal articles about religion on the island. He is currently on the faculty of the Department of Religion at the Catholic University of America. Jones primarily focuses on the history of Chinese Buddhism as an organized religion in Taiwan from the mid-1600s to the late 1980s. This is a much needed study as most literature on Chinese Buddhism is based on Mainland Chinese Buddhism. Only in the last ...

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