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Educating Monks: Minority Buddhism on China’s Southwest Border
By Thomas Borchert
66 minOne day these novices come up to me after class and they say, “Mr. Tom, can we talk to you about something?” I say, “Of course” expecting some rich conversation about the religious life or something… and they start breaking out into two or three part harmony
A brief interview about the extensive network of monastic schools in Southeast Asia and the ethnic minorities who leverage them for mobility.