Ancestors and anxiety : Daoism and the birth of rebirth in China /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Bokenkamp, Stephen R., 1949- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2007]
Subjects:
Taoism.
Reincarnation > Buddhism.
Taoïsme.
Réincarnation > Bouddhisme.
RELIGION > Taoism.
Taoismus
Wiedergeburt
Taoismus > Reinkarnation.
Reinkarnation > Taoismus.
Buddhismus > Reinkarnation.
Reinkarnation > Buddhismus.
Taoismus > Wiedergeburt > Buddhismus > Geschichte > 0200-0600.
Wiedergeburt > Buddhismus > China > Geschichte > 0200-0600.
China
China > Unsterblichkeit > Vorstellung > Geschichte > 0200-0600.
China.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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