Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (352 S.)
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Ill.
Edition:
2014
Series Statement:
Encounters with Asia
Parallel Title:
Print version India in the Chinese Imagination : Myth, Religion, and Thought
DDC:
303.48/251054
Keywords:
Asian Studies
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Main description: In this collection of original essays, leading Asian studies scholars take a new look at the way the Chinese conceived of India in their literature, art, and religious thought in the premodern era.
Abstract:
Biographical note: John Kieschnick is Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Professor of Buddhist Studies at Stanford University and the author of The Impact of Buddhism on Chinese Material Culture and Eminent Monk: Buddhist Ideals in Medieval Chinese Hagiography. Meir Shahar is Associate Professor of Chinese Studies at Tel Aviv University and the author of The Shaolin Monastery: History, Religion, and the Chinese Martial Arts and Crazy Ji: Chinese Religion and Popular Literature.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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FrontmatterContentsIntroductionChapter 1. Transformation as Imagination in Medieval Popular Buddhist Literature
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Chapter 2. Indian Mythology and the Chinese Imagination: Nezha, Nalakūbara, and Kṛṣṇạ
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Chapter 3. Indic Influences on Chinese Mythology: King Yama and His Acolytes as Gods of Destiny
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Chapter 4. Indian Myth Transformed in a Chinese Apocryphal Text: Two Stories on the Buddha’s Hidden Organ
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Chapter 5. From Bodily Relic to Dharma Relic Stūpa: Chinese Materialization of the Aśoka Legend in the Wuyue Period
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Chapter 6. "Ancestral Transmission" in Chinese Buddhist Monasteries: The Example of the Shaolin Temple
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Chapter 7. The Hagiography of Bodhidharma: Reconstructing the Point of Origin of Chinese Chan Buddhism
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Chapter 8. Is Nirvāṇa the Same as Insentience? Chinese Struggles with an Indian Buddhist Ideal
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Chapter 9. Karma and the Bonds of Kinship in Medieval Daoism: Reconciling the Irreconcilable
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Chapter 10. This Foreign Religion of Ours: Lingbao Views of Buddhist Translation
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GlossaryNotesBibliographyContributorsIndex.
DOI:
10.9783/9780812208924
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