Buddhist Masters of Modern China: The Lives and Legacies of Eight Eminent Teachers 新加坡 Carmen Suen

Carmen Suen

• “Some novelists hold a mirror up to the world and some

In South of the Border

joining political marches

and trying to make each other laugh

Buddhist Masters of Modern China: The Lives and Legacies of Eight Eminent Teachers 新加坡 Carmen SuenThrough the life stories and translated writings of eight masters, modern Chinese Buddhism comes to life for English readers for the first time. Amidst the Chinese political revolutions and cultural upheavals of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a group of dedicated and determined monks, nuns, and laypeople labored to reinvigorate the core practices and teachings of Buddhist China. These men and womencredited with instigating a