Authors: Gregory Adam Scott
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-03-27 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Between 1850 and 1966, tens of thousands of Buddhist sacred sites in China were destroyed, victims of targeted destruction, accidental damage, or simply neglect. During the same period, however, many of these sites were reconstructed, a process that involved both rebuilding material structures and reviving religious communities. The conventionally accepted