First Impressions #62: Gareth Fisher on Lay Buddhist Practice in Contemporary China

December 8, 2015December 9, 2015

Gareth Fisher, Max Weber and “The Protestant Ethic”: Twin Histories, University of Hawaii Press, 2014, 263pp., $50 — Gareth Fisher, From Comrades to Bodhisattvas: Moral Dimensions of Lay Buddhist Practice in Contemporary Chin, University of Hawaii Press, 2014, 263pp., $50

Shop Indie Bookstores — Gareth Fisher, From Comrades to Bodhisattvas: Moral Dimensions of Lay Buddhist Practice in Contemporary Chin, University of Hawaii Press, 2014, 263pp., $50

Lay Buddhism is a pathway to meaning in post-Maoist China. Kristian Petersen talks with Gareth Fisher, Associate Professor of Religion at Syracuse University, about his new book From Comrades to Bodhisattvas: Moral Dimensions of Lay Buddhist Practice in Contemporary China.