Bibliograph

Heart of Buddha, heart of China, the life of Tanxu, a twentieth-century monk, James Carter

Type

Label

Heart of Buddha, heart of China, the life of Tanxu, a twentieth-century monk, James Carter

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Heart of Buddha, heart of China

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

679991657

Responsibility statement

James Carter

Series statement

Oxford scholarship online.

Sub title

the life of Tanxu, a twentieth-century monk

Summary

The Buddhist monk Tanxu surmounted extraordinary obstacles - poverty, wars, famine, and foreign occupation - to become one of the most prominent monks in China. In this book, James Carter draws on untapped archival materials to provide a book that is part travelogue, part history and part biography of this remarkable man

Target audience

specialized

Classification