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Agama (Hinduism)
Anathapindika
Asceticism
Author_Stephen F. Teiser
Avadana
Bhikkhu
Bodhisattva
Buddhism
Buddhist mythology
Buddhist philosophy
Buddhist temple
Buddhist texts
Bureaucrat
Cambridge University Press
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Ceremony
Chan Buddhism
Chang'an
Chih
Chinese Buddhism
Chinese culture
Chinese literature
Chinese mythology
Christian monasticism
Confucianism
Criticism
Deity
Dichotomy
Divination
Edict
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Filial piety
Folk religion
Gautama Buddha
Ghost Festival
Guanyin
Historiography
Householder (Buddhism)
Hungry ghost
Incense
Jambudvipa
Jetavana
Journey to the West
Lao-Tzu
Lecture
Literature
Monasticism
Myth and ritual
Otherworld
Princeton University
Princeton University Press
Refuge (Buddhism)
Reincarnation
Religion
Religious text
Renunciation
Rite
Sanskrit
Sentient beings (Buddhism)
Seventh Moon
Shamanism
Shrine
Son of Heaven
State religion
Sutra
Tang dynasty
Taoism
Taoist temple
The Buddhist (TV channel)
Tripi?aka
Veneration of the dead
Vinaya
Writing
Product details
- ISBN 9780691026770
- Weight: 425g
- Dimensions: 197 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 01 Dec 1996
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Largely unstudied until now, the religious festivals that attracted Chinese people from all walks of life provide the most instructive examples of the interaction between Chinese forms of social life and the Indian tradition of Buddhism. Stephen Teiser examines one of the most important of such annual celebrations. He provides a comprehensive interpretation of the festivities of the seventh lunar month, in which laypeople presented offerings to Buddhist monks to gain salvation for their ancestors. Teiser uncovers a wide range of sources, many translated or analyzed for the first time in any language, to demonstrate how the symbolism, rituals, and mythology of the ghost festival pervaded the social landscape of medieval China.
Stephen F. Teiser is Associate Professor of Religion at Princeton University.
