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Power of place : the religious landscape of the Southern Sacred Peak (Nanyue) in medieval China /

"Throughout Chinese history mountains have been integral components of the religious landscape. They have been considered divine or numinous sites, the abodes of deities, the preferred locations for temples and monasteries, and destinations for pilgrims. Early in Chinese history a set of five m...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Robson, James, 1965 December 1- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Multiple
Publié: Cambridge : Harvard University Asia Center, ©2009.
Collection:Harvard East Asian monographs ; 316.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Part I: Situating Nanyue
  • 1. Religion and the sacred peaks of China
  • 2. Moving mountains: Nanyue in Chinese religious geography
  • 3. Imagining Nanyue: physical geography and mythical topography
  • - Part II: The Daoist and Buddhist histories of Nanyue
  • 4. Rising up to paradise: pre-Tang Daoism
  • 5. Nanyue in the Tang: local Daoist history
  • 6. Lady Wei and the female Daoists of Nanyue
  • 7. Local histories, lost monks
  • 8. Regional Buddhism during the Tang
  • - Conclusion.