Ancestors and Anxiety

Ancestors and Anxiety
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 238
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ISBN-10 : 0520933346
ISBN-13 : 9780520933347
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Book Synopsis Ancestors and Anxiety by : Stephen R. Bokenkamp

Download or read book Ancestors and Anxiety written by Stephen R. Bokenkamp and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2007-08-02 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative work on Chinese concepts of the afterlife is the result of Stephen Bokenkamp's groundbreaking study of Chinese scripture and the incorporation of Indic concepts into the Chinese worldview. Here, he explores how Chinese authors, including Daoists and non-Buddhists, received and deployed ideas about rebirth from the third to the sixth centuries C.E. In tracing the antecedents of these scriptures, Bokenkamp uncovers a stunning array of non-Buddhist accounts that provide detail on the realms of the dead, their denizens, and human interactions with them. Bokenkamp demonstrates that the motive for the Daoist acceptance of Buddhist notions of rebirth lay not so much in the power of these ideas as in the work they could be made to do.


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