| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 305 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Encounters with Asia |
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Encounters with Asia.
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| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Buddhism -- China.
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RELIGION -- Comparative Religion.
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Buddhism
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Civilization -- Indic influences
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International relations
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| SUBJECT |
China -- Civilization -- Indic influences.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90004583
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China -- Relations -- India
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India -- Relations -- China
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| Subject |
China
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India
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Kieschnick, John, 1964-
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Shahar, Meir, 1959-
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| ISBN |
9780812208924 |
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0812208927 |
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