Liz Wilson Family in Buddhism Book | sku-24243368 HC

Family in Buddhism by Liz Wilson is a new English-language hardcover in Religion & Religious Studies Books. It has 298 pages, sewn binding, cloth over boards and black-and-white illustrations; ISBN: 9781438447537. The edited volume examines biological families and families formed in Buddhist monasteries across Asia.

Although the Buddha left home and urged followers to become homeless, its contemporary and historical case studies and textual examples show how Asian Buddhists maintain kinship ties and use family and lineage to establish religious authority and protect religious privilege.

Its interdisciplinary approach covers South and East Asian contexts and challenges the view that Buddhism's celibate clergy makes the religion incompatible with family life. SKU: sku-24243368.