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Zen Conquests

Buddhist Transformations in Contemporary Vietnam

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Presents the first ethnography of Thien Vien Sung Phuc and its followers, and is also a compelling look at how the discourses of Buddhist Modernism were incorporated at a local level into this new space on the outskirts of Hanoi and how and why new constituencies of followers are drawn to Zen Buddhism in contemporary Vietnam.

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Zen Conquests, Alexander Soucy

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2022
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Title
Zen Conquests
Subtitle
Buddhist Transformations in Contemporary Vietnam
Language
English
Publisher
Rlpg/Galleys
Released
2022
Format
Hardcover
Pages
256
ISBN13
9780824889982
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Presents the first ethnography of Thien Vien Sung Phuc and its followers, and is also a compelling look at how the discourses of Buddhist Modernism were incorporated at a local level into this new space on the outskirts of Hanoi and how and why new constituencies of followers are drawn to Zen Buddhism in contemporary Vietnam.