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China’s Religion Law and the Perils of Counting Consciousness
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The academic study of Chinese religion overlaps with, and sometimes confronts, the work of rights advocates.These encounters can be uncomfortable for both parties.Scholars, diplomats, and jurists often have very different ideas of what rights are worth protecting, and what counts as religion.As recent revisions to China's religions law show, ideas about religion in China are changing quickly.
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“A third and highly likely possibility is that Khenpo is giving teaching on this sūtra and other Chinese religious sources in response to new laws in China that have been introduced since around the time of Khenpo's teaching in 2019, designed to sinicize all forms of religion in China, including Tibetan Buddhism (Batke, 2017; DuBois, 2017; International Campaign for Tibet, 2022; Tibetan Centre for”
From Aligning Chan with Dzogchen through the Śūraṅgama Sūtra: Khenpo Sodargye’s strategies for presenting and teaching a ‘Chinese’ sūtra through a ‘Dzogchen perspective’ (2026) · cites this paper as DuBois, 2017
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- This text is taken from Disturbances in Heaven: A Year of Chinese Labour, Civil Society, and Rights, Made in China Yearbook 2016, edited by Ivan Franceschini, Kevin Lin and Nicholas Loubere, published 2017 by ANU Press, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
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- Authors
- Dubois, T. D.
- Corresponding author
- Dubois, Thomas David
- ORCID
- Dubois, Thomas David
- Venue
- Disturbances in Heaven
- Publisher
- ANU Press
- Published
- 2017-02-16
- Pages
- 92-97
- OpenAlex
- W2587986981
- Cited by
- 10
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- 2026: 1 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 1 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 1
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- 4.05
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- book chapter
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- ANU Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
- ANU Open Research (Australian National University) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Law › Religious Freedom and Discrimination
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Chinese history and philosophy
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Religion and Society Interactions
- Keywords
- religion and law, Chinese religion, religious freedom, legal definition of religion, religious right, state regulation of religion, legal reform
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