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India in the Chinese imagination / edited by John Kieschnick and Meir Shahar.
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- Book
- Series:
- Encounters with Asia
- UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Relations.
- India--Relations--China.
- India.
- China--Relations--India.
- China.
- China--Civilization--Indic influences.
- Civilization.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (352 pages).
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Penn Press e-books.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2014]
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- Contents:
- Part I Indian Mythology and the Chinese Imagination
- Chapter 1 Transformation as Imagination in Medieval Popular Buddhist Literature / Victor H. Mair Mair, Victor H. 13
- Chapter 2 Indian Mythology and the Chinese Imagination: Nezha, Nalakubara, and Krsna / Meir Shahar Shahar, Meir 21
- Chapter 3 Indic Influences on Chinese Mythology: King Yama and His Acolytes as Gods of Destiny / Bernard Faure Faure, Bernard 46
- Chapter 4 Indian Myth Transformed in a Chinese Apocryphal Text: Two Stories on the Buddha's Hidden Organ / Nobuyoshi Yamabe Yamabe, Nobuyoshi 61
- Part II India In Chinese Imaginings of the Past
- Chapter 5 From Bodily Relic to Dharma Relic Stupa: Chinese Materialization of the Asoka Legend in the Wuyue Period / Shi Zhiru Zhiru, Shi 83
- Chapter 6 "Ancestral Transmission" in Chinese Buddhist Monasteries: The Example of the Shaolin Temple / Ye Derong Derong, Ye 110
- Chapter 7 The Hagiography of Bodhidharma: Reconstructing the Point of Origin of Chinese Chan Buddhism / John R. McRae McRae, John R. 125
- Part III Chinese Rethinking of Indian Buddhism
- Chapter 8 Is Nirvana the Same as Insentience? Chinese Straggles with an Indian Buddhist Ideal / Robert H. Sharf Sharf, Robert H. 141
- Chapter 9 Karma and the Bonds of Kinship in Medieval Daoism: Reconciling the Irreconcilable / Christine Mollier Mollier, Christine 171
- Chapter 10 This Foreign Religion of Ours: Lingbao Views of Buddhist Translation / Stephen R. Bokenkamp Bokenkamp, Stephen R. 182.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780812208924
- 0812208927
- OCLC:
- 870969927
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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