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Charisma and Compassion

Cheng Yen and the Buddhist Tzu Chi Movement

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$56.50 • £41.95 • €50.90

ISBN 9780674031333

Publication: January 2009

Short

354 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

12 halftones, 1 line illustration, 2 maps, 4 charts, 6 tables

World

  • Note on Romantization
  • Introduction
  1. From Filial Daughter to Embodied Bodhisattva
  2. Fluid Organization and Shapeless Bureaucracy
  3. Circulation and Transformation
  4. Weeping and Musical Corpreality
  5. Local Personhood
  6. A Genealogy of NGOness
  7. On a Global Stage
  8. Tales from Malacca
  • Conclusion
  • Appendixes
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Acknowledgements
  • Index

Awards

  • 2010 Junior Researcher Award, Academia Sinica
  • A Strategy + Business Best Business Book of 2009
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