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Ancestors and Anxiety : Daoism and the Birth of Rebirth in China /

Explores how Chinese authors, including Daoists and non-Buddhists, received and deployed ideas about rebirth from the third to the sixth centuries CE. This book aims to uncover an array of non-Buddhist accounts that provide detail on the realms of the dead, their denizens, and human interactions wit...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Bokenkamp, Stephen R., 1949- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2007]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Introduction : the problem of rebirth
  • Envisioning the dead
  • The unquiet dead and their families, political and agnate
  • Questionable shapes : how the living interrogated their dead
  • Doomed for a certain term : the intimate dead
  • Rebirth reborn.