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India in the Chinese imagination / edited by John Kieschnick and Meir Shahar.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Shahar, Meir, 1959-
Kieschnick, John, 1964-
University of Pennsylvania. Press.
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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