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Ancestors and anxiety : Daoism and the birth of rebirth in China / Stephen R. Bokenkamp.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Philip E. Lilienthal bookPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, �2007.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 220 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780520933347
  • 0520933346
  • 9781435601970
  • 1435601971
Other title:
  • Daoism and the birth of rebirth in China
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Ancestors and anxiety.DDC classification:
  • 299.5/14237 22
LOC classification:
  • BL1920 .B63 2007eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Acknowledgments; Note on Translation; Introduction: The Problem of Rebirth; 1. Envisioning the Dead; 2. The Unquiet Dead and Their Families, Political and Agnate; 3. Questionable Shapes: How the Living Interrogated Their Dead; 4. Doomed for a Certain Term: The Intimate Dead; 5. Rebirth Reborn; Postscript; List of Abbreviations; Bibliography; Index.
Summary: Explores how Chinese authors, including Daoists and non-Buddhists, received and deployed ideas about rebirth from the third to the sixth centuries CE. This book aims to uncover an array of non-Buddhist accounts that provide detail on the realms of the dead, their denizens, and human interactions with them.
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"A Philip E. Lilienthal book"--Page [ii].

Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-213) and index.

Explores how Chinese authors, including Daoists and non-Buddhists, received and deployed ideas about rebirth from the third to the sixth centuries CE. This book aims to uncover an array of non-Buddhist accounts that provide detail on the realms of the dead, their denizens, and human interactions with them.

Print version record.

Acknowledgments; Note on Translation; Introduction: The Problem of Rebirth; 1. Envisioning the Dead; 2. The Unquiet Dead and Their Families, Political and Agnate; 3. Questionable Shapes: How the Living Interrogated Their Dead; 4. Doomed for a Certain Term: The Intimate Dead; 5. Rebirth Reborn; Postscript; List of Abbreviations; Bibliography; Index.

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