Buddhist Monasteries between Charity and Profit: Taking the Issue of Water Supply of Lin'an (Hangzhou) during the Song Dynasty (960–1279) as an Example
The study addresses the role that Buddhist monasteries played as institutions of charity on the one hand and as economic organizations on the other in the interplay with the local elite and the administration, using the water supply activities of monasteries that agglomerated in Lin'an (Hangzho...
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Language: | English |
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Johns Hopkins University Press
2023
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Journal of Chinese religions
Year: 2023, Volume: 51, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-45 |
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