Wailing for Identity: Topical and Poetic Expressions of Cultural Belonging in Chinese Buddhist Literature
This paper draws on Antonino Forte’s notion of a borderland complex and on the concept of the ‘double belonging’ of Chinese Buddhists in the medieval period. This was caused by the fact that Middle Kingdom China was not the centre of Buddhist cosmology. Indeed, it was not part of the Buddhist sacred...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2018
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Dynamics in the history of religions
Year: 2018, Volume: 10, Pages: 225-252 |
| Further subjects: | B
Religion in Asien
B Asia B Religion B Asien-Studien B Religionswissenschaften B History |
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