Mortality in traditional Chinese thought / edited by Amy Olberding and Philip J. Ivanhoe.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Olberding, Amy.

Ivanhoe, P. J.

Series:

SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture.

SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Death.

Philosophy, Chinese.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (326 p.)

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Mortality in Traditional China is the definitive exploration of a complex and fascinating but little-understood subject. Arguably, death as a concept has not been nearly as central a preoccupation in Chinese culture as it has been in the West. However, even in a society that seems to understand death as a part of life, responses to mortality are revealing and indicate much about what is valued and what is feared. This edited volume fills the lacuna on this subject, presenting an array of philosophical, artistic, historical, and religious perspectives on death during a variety of historical periods. Contributors look at material culture, including findings now available from the Mawangdui tomb excavations; consider death in Confucian, Daoist, and Buddhist traditions; and discuss death and the history and philosophy of war.

Contents:

Preparation for the afterlife in ancient China / Mu-chou Poo

Ascend to Heaven or stay in the tomb? : paintings in Mawangdui Tomb 1 and the virtual ritual of revival in second-century B.C.E. China / Eugene Yuejin Wang

Concepts of the afterlife reflected in newly discovered tomb texts from Han China / Jue Guo

War, death, and ancient Chinese cosmology : thinking through the thickness of culture / Roger T. Ames

Death and dying in the analects / Philip J. Ivanhoe

I know not "seems" : grief for parents in the analects / Amy Olberding

Allotment and death in early China / Mark Csikszentmihalyi

Death in the Zhuangzi : mind, nature, and the art of forgetting / Mark Berkson

Sages, the past, and the dead : death in the Huainanzi / Michael Puett

A comparative study of Linji and William James on human mortality / Tao Jiang

Death as ultimate concern in neo-Confucian tradition : taking Wang Yangming's followers as example / Guoziang Peng.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781438435640

1438435649

9781441695444

1441695443

OCLC:

729244807