Ancestors and anxiety : Daoism and the birth of rebirth in China / Stephen R. Bokenkamp.
Material type: TextSeries: Philip E. Lilienthal bookPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, �2007.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 220 pages)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780520933347
- 0520933346
- 9781435601970
- 1435601971
- Daoism and the birth of rebirth in China
- Taoism
- Reincarnation -- Buddhism
- Religion
- RELIGION -- Taoism
- Reincarnation -- Buddhism
- Taoism
- Taoismus
- Wiedergeburt
- Taoismus -- Reinkarnation
- Reinkarnation -- Taoismus
- Buddhismus -- Reinkarnation
- Reinkarnation -- Buddhismus
- Taoismus -- Wiedergeburt -- Buddhismus -- Geschichte -- 0200-0600
- Wiedergeburt -- Buddhismus -- China -- Geschichte -- 0200-0600
- China -- Unsterblichkeit -- Vorstellung -- Geschichte -- 0200-0600
- Taoismus
- Wiedergeburt
- China
- 299.5/14237 22
- BL1920 .B63 2007eb
"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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