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.... Read More
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.... Read More
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.
Details
Price: $34.95
Pages: 232
Carton Quantity: 30
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Publication Date: 4th February 2009
Trim Size: 6 x 9 in
Illustration Note: A Lillienthal title
ISBN: 9780520259881
Format: Paperback
BISACs: RELIGION / Taoism (see also PHILOSOPHY / Taoist)
Author Bio
Stephen R. Bokenkamp is Professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Indiana University. He is the author of Early Daoist Scriptures (UC Press).
Table of 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
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.
Price: $34.95
Pages: 232
Carton Quantity: 30
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Publication Date: 4th February 2009
Trim Size: 6 x 9 in
Illustrations Note: A Lillienthal title
ISBN: 9780520259881
Format: Paperback
BISACs: RELIGION / Taoism (see also PHILOSOPHY / Taoist)
Stephen R. Bokenkamp is Professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Indiana University. He is the author of Early Daoist Scriptures (UC Press).
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