Heart of Buddha, Heart of China: The Life of Tanxu, a Twentieth Century Monk

by James Carter

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The Buddhist monk Tanxu surmounted extraordinary obstacles - poverty, wars, famine, and foreign occupation - to become one of the most prominent monks in China. In this book, James Carter draws on untapped archival materials to provide a book that is part travelogue, part history and part biography of this remarkable man.… (more)

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The Buddhist monk Tanxu surmounted extraordinary obstacles - poverty, wars, famine, and foreign occupation - to become one of the most prominent monks in China. In this book, James Carter draws on untapped archival materials to provide a book that is part travelogue, part history and part biography of this remarkable man.

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