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The ghost festival in medieval China /

Largely unstudied until now, the religious festivals that attracted Chinese people from all walks of life provide the most instructive examples of the interaction between Chinese forms of social life and the Indian tradition of Buddhism. Stephen Teiser examines one of the most important of such annu...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Teiser, Stephen F.
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Princeton, N.J. ; Chichester : Princeton University Press, 1988
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • The prehistory of the ghost festival
  • An episodic history of the ghost festival in Medieval China
  • The mythological background
  • Mu-lien as shaman
  • The cosmology of the ghost festival
  • Buddhism and the family
  • Concluding perspectives.