Crafting a Buddhist public: urban Buddhism and youth aspirations in late-socialist Vietnam

This dissertation examines the recent proliferation of Buddhist youth programs and of youth participation in Buddhism in contemporary Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Drawing on twenty months of ethnographic fieldwork from 2016 to 2019, as well as in-depth interviews with Buddhist monastics, lay Buddhist...

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Main Author: Nguyen, Dat Manh
Other Authors: Hefner, Robert W.
Language:en_US
Published: 2021
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2144/42024