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Making Transcendents : Ascetics and Social Memory in Early Medieval China /
Honorable Mention, Joseph Levenson Prize (pre-1900 category), Association for Asian StudiesBy the middle of the third century B.C.E. in China there were individuals who sought to become transcendents (xian)-deathless, godlike beings endowed with supernormal powers. This quest for transcendence becam...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawaii Press,
[2009]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Bringing Transcendents Down to Earth
- Chapter 2. The Transcendent's Cultural Repertoire
- Chapter 3. Deeper Repertoire Analysis: "Avoiding Grains"
- Chapter 4. Secret Arts, Manifest Wonders
- Chapter 5. Verbal Self-Presentation and Audience Response
- Chapter 6. Adepts and Their Communities
- Chapter 7. Adepts, Their Families, and the Imperium
- Chapter 8. Hagiographic Persuasions
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author