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Buddha in the marketplace: the commodification of Buddhist objects in Tibet

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Field name	Details
ISBN	0813943183 (softcover)
ISBN	9780813943183 (softcover)
Author	Catanese, Alex John
Title	Buddha in the marketplace : the commodification of Buddhist objects in Tibet / Alex John Catanese
Publisher	Charlottesville, VA ; London : University of Virginia Press, 2019
Physical desc.	318 pages ; color illustrations, color maps ; 24 cm.
Series	Traditions and transformations in Tibetan Buddhism
Bibliography etc.	Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-306) and index.
Contents	Introduction -- Early prohibitions against selling Buddhist objects: Indian and Chinese sources -- Selling Buddhist objects in Tibetan Buddhist literature -- The exchange of Buddhist objects in Tibet up to the Cultural Revolution -- The sale of Buddhist objects in Amdo: the socioeconomic context -- The sociopolitical context of commodification -- Painters, merchants, and monks: Tibetan perceptions of the sale of Buddhist goods -- The impact of selling Buddhist objects in Tibet: the economic, cultural, and shifting moral dimensions of commodification.
Subject	Buddhist religious articles -- China -- Tibet Region
Subject	Buddhist religious articles -- Marketing

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