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Chinese Buddhist Monasteries: Their Plan and Its Function as a Setting for Buddhist Monastic Life, Johannes Prip-Møller.
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Copenhagen : G.E.C. Gads Forlag, 1937. Hardcover. Table of contents; Preface; I. The typical Buddhist monastery layout of today: - Central axis; II. Buddhist monastery layout of today: Lateral groups; III. The monastery of Hui Chü Ssu, Pao Hua Shan, Kiangsu; IV. Buddhist History of Hui Chü Ssu, Pao Hua Shan, Kiangsu; V. The ordination unit, its ceremonies and its developments; VI. Monks' offices and daily life in the monasteries; Table of Sketches; Table of Plates; Alphabetical index; Table of monasteries; Chinese dynasties; Notes on Illustrations; Errata. Pocket in back with 3 fold out diagrams 29 1/2 by 21 inches. The book has 365 numbered B&W plates and sketches, some on fold out pages. There is a colored front piece of the Interior of the 500 Lo Han T'ang, and a woodcut reproduced from the Pao Hua Shan Chronicle. ix + 396 pages.

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