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almafu_9958352415302883
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1 online resource(352p.) :
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illustrations.
Ausgabe:
Electronic reproduction. , 2014. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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ISBN:
9780812208924
Serie:
Encounters with Asia
Inhalt:
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.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Introduction --
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Chapter 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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Glossary --
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Notes --
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Bibliography --
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Contributors --
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Index.
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In English.
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.9783/9780812208924
URL:
https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812208924
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