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Ancestors and anxiety [[electronic resource] ] : Daoism and the birth of rebirth in China / / Stephen R. Bokenkamp



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Autore: Bokenkamp Stephen R. <1949-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Ancestors and anxiety [[electronic resource] ] : Daoism and the birth of rebirth in China / / Stephen R. Bokenkamp Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley ; ; London, : University of California Press, c2007
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (233 p.)
Disciplina: 299.514237
Soggetto topico: Taoism
Reincarnation - Buddhism
Soggetto non controllato: 6th century
afterlife
belief
buddhist
chinese culture
chinese history
chinese myth
chinese scripture
chinese worldview
cultural history
cultural studies
daoist
daoists
faith
global
holy book
indic
international
non buddhist
rebirth
reincarnation
religion
religious studies
scripture
social history
social studies
Note generali: "A Philip E. Lilienthal book"--P. [ii].
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-213) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Translation -- Introduction: The Problem of Rebirth -- 1. Envisioning the Dead -- 2. The Unquiet Dead and Their Families, Political and Agnate -- 3. Questionable Shapes: How the Living Interrogated Their Dead -- 4. Doomed for a Certain Term: The Intimate Dead -- 5. Rebirth Reborn -- Postscript -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: This innovative work on Chinese concepts of the afterlife is the result of Stephen Bokenkamp's groundbreaking study of Chinese scripture and the incorporation of Indic concepts into the Chinese worldview. Here, he explores how Chinese authors, including Daoists and non-Buddhists, received and deployed ideas about rebirth from the third to the sixth centuries C.E. In tracing the antecedents of these scriptures, Bokenkamp uncovers a stunning array of non-Buddhist accounts that provide detail on the realms of the dead, their denizens, and human interactions with them. Bokenkamp demonstrates that the motive for the Daoist acceptance of Buddhist notions of rebirth lay not so much in the power of these ideas as in the work they could be made to do.
Altri titoli varianti: Daoism and the birth of rebirth in China
Titolo autorizzato: Ancestors and anxiety  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-44573-1
9786612445736
0-520-93334-6
1-4356-0197-1
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910778117803321
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