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Precious volumes : an introduction to Chinese sectarian scriptures from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries /
"Precious volumes," or pao-chuan, were produced by popular religious sects in the Ming and Ch'ing dynasties. These scriptures were believed to have been divinely revealed to sect leaders and contain teachings and ritual instructions that provide valuable information about a lively and...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Published by the Harvard University Asia Center,
1999.
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| Colección: | Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series ;
49. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Precious volumes," or pao-chuan, were produced by popular religious sects in the Ming and Ch'ing dynasties. These scriptures were believed to have been divinely revealed to sect leaders and contain teachings and ritual instructions that provide valuable information about a lively and widespread religious tradition outside the mainstream religious systems of Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism. Proscribed by the Chinese state and largely neglected until now, they testify to the imagination and devotion of popular religious leaders. This book, the most detailed and comprehensive study of early pao-chuan in any language, studies 34 examples of this literature from the Ming and Ch'ing dynasties in order to understand the origins and development of this textual tradition |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 444 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-416). |
| ISBN: | 9781684170319 1684170311 |