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Genre/Form: | History |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Wendy Cadge |
ISBN: | 0226088995 9780226088990 0226089002 9780226089003 |
OCLC Number: | 1016326431 |
Description: | x, 268 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
Contents: | Arrivals and a map of the journey -- History of Theravada Buddhism in America -- New organizations, Wat Mongkoltepmunee (Wat Phila) and the Cambridge Insight Meditation Center (CIMC) -- Lived Buddhism, the construction of teaching and practice at Wat Phila and CIMC -- Refuge in the Sangha, the shape of Buddhist communities -- Ascribed and achieved Buddhist identities -- Observations through a gendered lens -- Taking stock, looking forward -- Appendices: Research methods; Refuges and precepts. |
Series Title: | Morality and society. |
Responsibility: | Wendy Cadge. |
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