India in the Chinese imagination: myth, religion, and thought

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...

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Otros Autores: Kieschnick, John 1964- (Editor ) ; Shaḥar, Meʾir 1959- (Otro)
Tipo de documento: Print Libro
Lenguaje:Inglés
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Publicado: Philadelphia, Penn. University of Pennsylvania Press 2014
En:Año: 2014
Volúmenes / Artículos:Mostrar volumes / artículos.
Colección / Revista:Encounters with Asia
(Cadenas de) Palabra clave estándar:B Literatura budista / India / China
B China / India (Motivo) / Religión / Budismo / Mito / Idea / Historia
Otras palabras clave:B China Relations (India)
B Buddhism China
B China Civilization Indic influences
B China Religión
B India Relations (China)
B Colección de artículos
B China Relations India
B India Relations China
Acceso en línea: Inhaltsverzeichnis (Verlag)
Parallel Edition:Electrónico
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Sumario: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
Notas:Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-297) and index
ISBN:0812245601