A Tricycle magazine article by religious studies professor Jeff Wilson describing the present-day merit economy sustaining Chinese Buddhist temples such as Cham Shan Temple in Ontario, in which lay giving is voluntary but carries real social expectation.
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Tier 1: written by Jeff Wilson, a Shin Buddhist priest and professor of religious studies at Renison University College, University of Waterloo, for Tricycle's Summer 2020 issue. Describes present-day Chinese Buddhist temple support directly, naming Cham Shan Temple in Ontario, one of the largest Chinese Tiantai Buddhist networks in Canada, and states laity's motivations plainly include "the social pressure they feel to conform to the expected models of generosity," alongside devotion and the wish to share in monastic merit, while the underlying exchange itself remains voluntary rather than a fixed, codified due. Citation
AuthorJeff Wilson
PublisherTricycle: The Buddhist Review (Summer 2020 issue)
Publication Year2020
URLhttps://tricycle.org/magazine/merit-economy/
Source Typeacademic article
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