IB DP Language A Language and Literature – sample text analysis – book on Japanese Buddhism
Text: Stephen G. Covell. Japanese Temple Buddhism. Extract from Chapter 7 (“Money and the Temple”) pages 140 and 141: “I have identified a variety of difficulties in maintaining a world-renouncing institution while continuing householding practices. I will now explore the difficulties of maintaining a nonsecular institution, the temple, in a secular world. Much of the …