Agriculture (Chinese mythology)
Ancient China
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Chinese astronomy
Chinese Buddhism
Chinese Buddhist canon
Chinese classics
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Chinese dictionary
Chinese kinship
Chinese literature
Chinese mythology
Chinese painting
Chinese philosophy
Chinese poetry
Chinese theology
City God (China)
Classical Chinese
Confucian Academy
Confucian art
Confucianism
Confucius
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Fei Lian
Guanyin
Han dynasty
Human beings in Buddhism
Jiangxi
Jicheng (Beijing)
Kongzi Jiayu
Kui (Chinese mythology)
Kunlun Mountain (mythology)
Languages of China
Laozi
Manchu shamanism
Mencius (book)
Names of China
Petitioning (China)
Provinces of China
Qianlong Emperor
Qin Shi Huang
Qingdao
Qixia Temple
Refuge (Buddhism)
Religion
Religion in China
Religious text
Rite
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Shenxian zhuan
Sichuan
Southwest China
Taiping Guangji
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Taoism
The Monastery
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Varieties of Chinese
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Zhang Qian
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Product details
- ISBN 9780691021430
- Weight: 680g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 07 Apr 1996
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This third volume of Princeton Readings in Religions demonstrates that the "three religions" of China--Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism (with a fourth, folk religion, sometimes added)--are not mutually exclusive: they overlap and interact with each other in a rich variety of ways. The volume also illustrates some of the many interactions between Han culture and the cultures designated by the current government as "minorities." Selections from minority cultures here, for instance, are the folktale of Ny Dan the Manchu Shamaness and a funeral chant of the Yi nationality collected by local researchers in the early 1980s. Each of the forty unusual selections, from ancient oracle bones to stirring accounts of mystic visions, is preceded by a substantial introduction. As with the other volumes, most of the selections here have never been translated before. Stephen Teiser provides a general introduction in which the major themes and categories of the religions of China are analyzed.
The book represents an attempt to move from one conception of the "Chinese spirit" to a picture of many spirits, including a Laozi who acquires magical powers and eventually ascends to heaven in broad daylight; the white-robed Guanyin, one of the most beloved Buddhist deities in China; and the burning-mouth hungry ghost. The book concludes with a section on "earthly conduct."
Donald S. Lopez, Jr., is Professor of Buddhist and Tibetan Studies in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Michigan.
