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Taiwan's Tzu Chi as Engaged Buddhism: Origins, Organization, Appeal and Social Impact. By Yu-Shuang Yao . pp. xiv, 243. Leiden/Boston, Global Orientals, 2012.

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Taiwan's Tzu Chi as Engaged Buddhism: Origins, Organization, Appeal and Social Impact. By Yu-Shuang Yao . pp. xiv, 243. Leiden/Boston, Global Orientals, 2012.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2015

Stefania Travagnin
Stefania Travagnin*
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University of Groningens.travagnin@rug.nl
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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 25 , Issue 3 , July 2015 , pp. 548 - 549
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References

1 Jones, Charles B., Buddhism in Taiwan (Honolulu, 1999)Google Scholar.

2 For Foguangshan see Chandler, Stuart, Establishing a Pure Land on Earth: The Foguang Buddhist Perspectives on Modernization and Globalization (Honolulu, 2004)Google Scholar; For Tzu Chi Foundation see Huang, Julia C., (2009) Charisma and Compassion: Cheng Yen and the Buddhist Tzu Chi Movement (Cambridge, Mass, 2009)Google Scholar.

3 Among the others: Laliberté, André, The Politics of Buddhist Organizations in Taiwan, 1989–2003 : Safeguarding the Faith, Building a Pure Land, Helping the Poor, (London, 2004)Google Scholar; Madsen, Richard, Democracy's Dharma: Religious Renaissance and Political Development in Taiwan (Los Angeles, 2007)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.