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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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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
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Online Access:Texto completo
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.