The Ghost Festival in Medieval China /

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Largely unstudied until now, the religious festivals that attracted Chinese people from all walks of life provide the most instructive examples of the interaction between Chinese forms of social life and the Indian tradition of Buddhism. Stephen Teiser examines one of the most important of such annu...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Teiser, Stephen F. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2022]
Temas:
Buddhist memorial rites and ceremonies > China.
Pretas (Buddhism)
Pretas (Buddhism).
Ullambana.
RELIGION / Taoism (see also PHILOSOPHY / Taoist).
Abhidharmal.
Apocrypha.
Asvajit.
Avici Hell.
Black Rope Hell.
Buddhaputra.
Chavannes, Edouard.
Chi-kuo ssu.
Chih-yuan.
Christianity.
Class structure.
Confucius.
Daianji.
Dharmagupta sect.
Dionysus.
Dirghdgama.
Eighteen transformations.
Ennin.
Etymology.
Examiner of Fate.
Feast, nature of.
Five Vehicles.
Gernet, Jacques.
Ghosts and ancestors.
Gunabhadra.
Hell of Fiery Heat.
Hsüan-tsang.
Impartial, King.
Iranian religions.
Japanese literature.
Karma Official.
Kolita.
Kuan-ting ching.
Lao-tzu.
Lay people.
Literacy.
Lu-tou.
Martial powers.
Milky Way.
Morality books.
Mu-lien pien.
Musicians.
Mädhyamika.
Nagarjuna.
Nanda.
Nirvanasūtra.
Officer of Earth.
Officer of Records.
Parents.
Prasenajit, King.
Radha.
Renunciation.
Rite of passage.
Sage.
Sangoku denki.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • ONE Introduction
  • TWO The Prehistory of the Ghost Festival
  • THREE An Episodic History of the Ghost Festival in Medieval China
  • FOUR The Mythological Background
  • FIVE Mu-lien as Shaman
  • SIX The Cosmology of the Ghost Festival
  • SEVEN Buddhism and the Family
  • EIGHT Concluding Perspectives
  • Character Glossary of Chinese, Korean, and Japanese Words
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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