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The great state of white and high : Buddhism and state formation in eleventh-century Xia /

In the late tenth and eleventh centuries, a group of people known in Western and Japanese scholarship as the Tangut established an independent regime in the Ordos (present-day Ningxia, Shaanxi, Gansu, and Inner Mongolia). It quickly grew into the Xia empire, a multiethnic, multilingual state whose r...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dunnell, Ruth W., 1950-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, ©1996.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Genealogy of Eleventh-Century Xia Dynastic Alliances
  • Brief Chronology of the Main Events in Xia History
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Buddhism and Monarchy in the Early Tangut State
  • 3. Buddhism under the Regencies (1049-1099)
  • 4. A History of the Dayun (Huguo) Temple at Liangzhou
  • 5. Annotated Translation of the 1094 Stele Inscriptions
  • 6. Reading between the Lines: A Comparison and Analysis of the Tangut and Han Texts
  • 7. Conclusion
  • App. A. Photoreproductions of Rubbings of the 1094 Gantong Stupa Stele Inscriptions
  • App. B. Chronology of Sources Recording or Discussing the Inscriptions on the Gantong Stupa Stele
  • A Select Glossary of Chinese Names and Terms.