Worldly Engagements : Buddhist Monasticism and Masculinity Among the Tai Lue of Southwest China

Name: Worldly Engagements : Buddhist Monasticism and Masculinity Among the Tai Lue of Southwest China
Brand: University of Hawai'i Press

University of Hawai'i Press

Worldly EngagementsBuddhist Monasticism and Masculinity Among the Tai Lue of Southwest China\nAuthor(s): Roger Casas, Mark Michael Rowe\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Hawai'i Press, United States\nImprint: University of Hawai'i Press\nISBN-13: 9798880700875, 979-8880700875\nSynopsis\nThe Tai Lue of Sipsong Panna, located in Chinas southern Yunnan province, are the largest community of Theravada Buddhists in a country where the Mahayana tradition is historically and overwhelmingly dominant. Following years of repression during the Maoist era, in the 1980s Buddhism among the Lue recovered and even thrived. In recent decades, and in light of ever-increasing global connectivity and visibility online, the public participation of Tai Lue novices and monks in practices such as eating in the afternoon, drinking alcohol, having girlfriends, and competing in sportsall considered unfitting, even unacceptable, behavior for Buddhist monastics in China and Southeast Asiahas been censu.