Yao, Yu-shuang : Taiwan's Tzu Chi as Engaged Buddhism: Origins, Organization, Appeal and Social Impact

  • Richard Gombrich Universität Marburg Fachbereich Gesellschaftswissenschaften und Philosophie Institut für Vergleichende Kulturforschung FG Religionswissenschaft
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17192/mjr.2013.17.3286
Keywords: Taiwan, Buddhismus, Bewegung, Frauen, Tzu Chi, buddhism, movement, women

Abstract

It is many years since I have enjoyed an academic book so much as this one, or benefited so much from reading it. I had the good fortune to be invited by Global Oriental to read a manuscript submitted to them for publication. Since I do not know Chinese, and have no specialist knowledge of Chinese religion, I was disinclined to accept; but I was moved to do so by being told that the author, who lived in Taiwan, had spent nearly ten years looking for a publisher for this, her first book in English. For once, my virtue has been rewarded.

Author Biography

Richard Gombrich, Universität Marburg Fachbereich Gesellschaftswissenschaften und Philosophie Institut für Vergleichende Kulturforschung FG Religionswissenschaft

Richard Gombrich (1937) was Boden Professor of Sanskrit at the University of Oxford from 1976 until his retirement in 2004, and is well known for his writings on Buddhism. He served as President of the Pali Text Society from 1994 till 2002.

This review is reproduced here by kind permission of the Oxford Centre for Buddist Studies (OCBS).

References

i. Wilson, Bryan and Dobbelaere, K., A Time to Chant, the Soka Gakkai Buddhists in Britain (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994).
ii. Stark, R., ‘Why Religious Movements Succeed or Fail: A Revised General Model’, Journal of Contemporary Religion, Vol. 11, No. 2, 1996, pp. 133-46.
Published
2015-01-23
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Vol 17 No 1 (2013)
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