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Being Buddhist in a Christian World: Gender and Community in a Korean American Temple (American Ethnic and Cultural Studies Series)
Being Buddhist in a Christian World Gender and Community in a Korean American Temple - American Ethnic and Cultural Studies Series
Author: Sharon A. Suh
Challenging Western notions of Buddhism as a self-effacing path to rebirth and enlightenment, Sharon Suh shows how first-generation Korean Americans at Sa Chal Temple in Los Angeles have applied Buddhist doctrines to the project of finding and knowing the self in everyday life. Buddhism, for these Buddhists, serves as a source of empowerment an...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780295983783
ISBN-10: 0295983787
Publication Date: 3/2004
Pages: 256
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Publisher: University of Washington Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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