A Domesticated Charisma: Buddhist Hagiographies in Southern Song China (1127-1279)
Unlike comparable texts found in other religious traditions, hagiographies of Chinese Buddhist monks were composed by writers from outside the ecclesia, that is, Confucian scholar-officials. This difference produced, according to some scholars, a "peculiar distortion" in the transmission o...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Chicago Press
2023
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History of religions
Year: 2023, Volume: 63, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-34 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Buddhism
/ Hagiography
/ Stūpas
/ Inscription
/ Song dynasty (960-1279)
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| RelBib Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion BL Buddhism BM Chinese universism; Confucianism; Taoism KBM Asia TE Middle Ages |
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