The ghost festival in medieval China /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Teiser, Stephen F.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, N.J. ; Chichester : Princeton University Press, 1988
Subjects:
Moggallāna.
Moggallāna
Yu lan pen jing > Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Yu lan pen jing
Ullambana.
Buddhist memorial rites and ceremonies > China.
Pretas (Buddhism)
Rites et cérémonies commémoratifs bouddhiques > Chine.
Preta (Bouddhisme)
RELIGION > Taoism.
Buddhist memorial rites and ceremonies
Ullambana
China
Abhidharmal.
Apocrypha.
Asvajit.
Avici Hell.
Black Rope Hell.
Buddhaputra.
Chavannes, Edouard.
Chi-kuo ssu.
Chih-yuan.
Christianity.
Class structure.
Confucius.
Daianji.
Dharmagupta sect.
Dionysus.
Dirghdgama.
Eighteen transformations.
Ennin.
Etymology.
Examiner of Fate.
Feast, nature of.
Five Vehicles.
Gernet, Jacques.
Ghosts and ancestors.
Gunabhadra.
Hell of Fiery Heat.
Hsüan-tsang.
Impartial, King.
Iranian religions.
Japanese literature.
Karma Official.
Kolita.
Kuan-ting ching.
Lao-tzu.
Lay people.
Literacy.
Lu-tou.
Martial powers.
Milky Way.
Morality books.
Mu-lien pien.
Musicians.
Mädhyamika.
Nagarjuna.
Nanda.
Nirvanasūtra.
Officer of Earth.
Officer of Records.
Parents.
Prasenajit, King.
Radha.
Renunciation.
Rite of passage.
Sage.
Sangoku denki.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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