Religion and poetry in medieval China : the way and the words / edited by Gil Raz and Anna M. Shields.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Raz, Gil, editor.

Shields, Anna M., 1966- editor.

Series:

Global Chinese histories, 250-1650.

Global Chinese histories, 250-1650

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Buddhist poetry--China--History.

Buddhist poetry.

History.

Taoist poetry--China.

Taoist poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (267 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2024.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2023.

System Details:

text file HTML

Summary:

This volume of interdisciplinary essays examines the intersection of religion and literature in medieval China, focusing on the impact of Buddhism and Daoism on a wide range of elite and popular literary texts and religious practices in the third to eleventh centuries CE. Drawing on the work of the interdisciplinary scholar Stephen Bokenkamp, the essays weave together the many cross-currents of religious, intellectual, and literary traditions in medieval China to provide vivid pictures of medieval Chinese religion and culture as it was lived and practiced. The contributors to the volume are all highly regarded experts in the fields of Chinese poetry, Daoism, Buddhism, popular religion, and literature. Their research papers cut across imagined disciplinary boundaries to show that the culture of medieval China can only be understood by close reading of texts from multiple genres, traditions, and approaches.

Contents:

Cover

Table of Contents

Conventions for Frequently Cited Works

Introduction

Gil Raz and Anna M. Shields

1. Brushing Past Rainbows: Religion and Poetry in the Xu Mi Stele

J.E.E. Pettit

2. Li Bo and Hu Ziyang: Companions of the Way

Paul W. Kroll

3. The Vicarious Angler: Gao Pian's Daoist Poetry

Franciscus Verellen

4. Traces of the Way: The Poetry of "Divine Transcendence" in the Northern Song Anthology Literature's Finest (Wen cui 文粹)

Anna M. Shields

5. A Re-examination of the Second Juan of the Array of the Five Talismans of the Numinous Treasure 太上 寶五符序

Wang Zongyu 王宗昱 (translated by Gil Raz)

6. "True Forms" and "True Faces": Daoist and Buddhist Discourse on Images

Gil Raz

7. After the Apocalypse: The Evolving Ethos of the Celestial Master Daoists

Terry Kleeman

8. Shangqing Scriptures as Performative Texts

Robert Ford Campany

9. My Back Pages: The Sūtra in Forty-Two Chapters Revisited

James Robson

10. Taking Stock

John Lagerwey

Epilogue

Traversing the Golden Porte-The Problem with Daoist Studies

Stephen R. Bokenkamp

Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Feb 2024).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-003-70253-8

1-04-077255-2

90-485-6355-0

90-485-5526-4

9781003702535

OCLC:

1371972329