India in the Chinese imagination: myth, religion, and thought
Transformation as imagination in medieval popular Buddhist literature / Victor H. Mair -- Indian mythology and the Chinese imagination : Nezha, Nalakūbara, and Kṛṣṇa / Meir Shahar -- Indic influences on Chinese mythology : King Yama and his acolytes as gods of destiny / Bernard Faure -- Indian myth...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Published: |
Philadelphia, Penn.
University of Pennsylvania Press
2014
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| In: | Year: 2014 |
| Volumes / Articles: | Show volumes/articles. |
| Series/Journal: | Encounters with Asia
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Buddhist literature
/ India
/ China
B China / India (Motif) / Religion / Buddhism / Myth / Idea / History |
| Further subjects: | B
Collection of essays
B China Relations (India) B Buddhism China B China Civilization Indic influences B India Relations (China) B China Relations India B China Religion B India Relations China |
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| Parallel Edition: | Electronic
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| Summary: | Transformation as imagination in medieval popular Buddhist literature / Victor H. Mair -- Indian mythology and the Chinese imagination : Nezha, Nalakūbara, and Kṛṣṇa / Meir Shahar -- Indic influences on Chinese mythology : King Yama and his acolytes as gods of destiny / Bernard Faure -- Indian myth transformed in a Chinese apocryphal text : two stories on the Buddha's hidden organ / Nobuyoshi Yamabe -- From bodily relic to dharma relic stūpa : Chinese materialization of the Aśoka legend in the Wuyue period / Shi Zhiru -- "Ancestral transmission" in Chinese Buddhist monasteries : the example of the Shaolin Temple / Ye Derong -- The hagiography of Bodhidharma : reconstructing the point of origin of Chinese Chan Buddhism / John R. McRae -- Is nirvāṇa the same as insentience? : Chinese struggles with an Indian Buddhist ideal / Robert H. Sharf -- Karma and the bonds of kinship in medieval Daoism : reconciling the irreconcilable / Christine Mollier -- This foreign religion of ours : Lingbao views of Buddhist translation / Stephen R. Bokenkamp |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-297) and index |
| ISBN: | 0812245601 |