Signs from the Unseen Realm: Buddhist Miracle Tales from Early Medieval China - Couverture souple

Campany, Robert Ford

 
9780824896829: Signs from the Unseen Realm: Buddhist Miracle Tales from Early Medieval China
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0824896823 ISBN 13 : 9780824896829
Editeur : University of Hawai'i Press, 2023

Synopsis

In early medieval China hundreds of Buddhist miracle texts were circulated, inaugurating a trend that would continue for centuries. Each tale recounted extraordinary events involving Chinese persons and places--events seen as verifying claims made in Buddhist scriptures, demonstrating the reality of karmic retribution, or confirming the efficacy of Buddhist devotional practices. Robert Ford Campany, one of North America's preeminent scholars of Chinese religion, presents in this volume the first complete, annotated translation, with in-depth commentary, of the largest extant collection of miracle tales from the early medieval period, Wang Yan's Records of Signs from the Unseen Realm, compiled around 490 C.E.

In addition to the translation, Campany provides a substantial study of the text and its author in their historical and religious settings. He shows how these lively tales helped integrate Buddhism into Chinese society at the same time that they served as platforms for religious contestation and persuasion. Campany offers a nuanced, clear methodological discussion of how such narratives, being products of social memory, may be read as valuable evidence for the history of religion and culture.

Readers interested in Buddhism; historians of Chinese religions, culture, society, and literature; scholars of comparative religion: All will find Signs from the Unseen Realm a stimulating and rich contribution to scholarship.

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À propos de l?auteur

Robert Ford Campany is Gertrude Conway Vanderbilt Chair in the Humanities and professor of Asian studies and religions at Vanderbilt University.

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Éditeur
University of Hawai'i Press
Date d'édition
2023
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0824896823
ISBN 13 
9780824896829
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
324
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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Autres éditions populaires du même titre

9780824836023: Signs from the Unseen Realm: Buddhist Miracle Tales from Early Medieval China

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0824836022 ISBN 13 :  9780824836023
Editeur : University of Hawai'i Press, 2012
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