India in the Chinese Imagination : Myth, Religion, and Thought /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Shahar, Meir, 1959-, Kieschnick, John, 1964-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2014]
Edition:[1st ed.].
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
International relations.
Civilization > Indic influences.
Buddhism
RELIGION > Comparative Religion.
Bouddhisme > Chine.
Buddhism > China.
India.
China.
Chine > Civilisation > Influence de l'Inde.
India > Relations > China.
China > Relations > India.
China > Civilization > Indic influences.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Transformation as imagination in medieval popular Buddhist literature / Victor H. Mair
  • Indian mythology and the Chinese imagination : Nezha, Nalakūbara, and Kṛṣṇa / Meir Shahar
  • Indic influences on Chinese mythology : King Yama and his acolytes as gods of destiny / Bernard Faure
  • Indian myth transformed in a Chinese apocryphal text : two stories on the Buddha's hidden organ / Nobuyoshi Yamabe
  • From bodily relic to dharma relic stūpa : Chinese materialization of the Aśoka legend in the Wuyue period / Shi Zhiru
  • "Ancestral transmission" in Chinese Buddhist monasteries : the example of the Shaolin Temple / Ye Derong
  • The hagiography of Bodhidharma : reconstructing the point of origin of Chinese Chan Buddhism / John R. McRae
  • Is nirvāṇa the same as insentience? Chinese struggles with an Indian Buddhist ideal / Robert H. Sharf
  • Karma and the bonds of kinship in medieval Daoism : reconciling the irreconcilable / Christine Mollier
  • This foreign religion of ours : Lingbao views of Buddhist translation / Stephen R. Bokenkamp.

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