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Monks, Money, and Morality - The Balancing Act of Contemporary Buddhism (Hardcover)
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Monks, Money, and Morality - The Balancing Act of Contemporary Buddhism (Hardcover)
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Vibrantly engaging contemporary Buddhist lives, this book focuses
on the material and financial relations of contemporary monks,
temples, and laypeople. It shows that rather than being peripheral,
economic exchanges are key to religious debate in Buddhist
societies. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in countries
ranging from India to Japan, including all three major Buddhist
traditions, the book addresses the flows of goods and services
between clergy and laity, the management of resources, the
treatment of money, and the role of the state in temple economies.
Along with documenting ritual and economic practices, these
accounts deal with the moral challenges that Buddhist adherents are
facing today, thereby bringing lived experience to the study of an
often-romanticized religion.
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