Overlapping Cosmologies in Asia: Transcultural and Interdisciplinary Approaches - Couverture rigide

Livre 9 sur 10: Crossroads - History of Interactions across the Silk Routes
 
9789004511415: Overlapping Cosmologies in Asia: Transcultural and Interdisciplinary Approaches
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 9004511415 ISBN 13 : 9789004511415
Editeur : Brill, 2022

Synopsis

A new, transnational, and interdisciplinary understanding of cosmology in Asian history. Cosmologies were not coherent systems belonging to separate cultures but rather complex bodies of knowledge and practice that regularly coexisted and co-mingled in extraordinarily diverse ways.

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À propos de l'auteur

Bill M. Mak is a research fellow at the Needham Research Institute, Bye Fellow of the Robinson College, Cambridge University, and Principal Researcher at the Tsz Shan Monastery Buddhist Art Museum, Hong Kong. He received his PhD (2010) from Peking University. Eric Huntington holds a T. T. and W. F. Chao Assistant Professorship in Transnational Asian Studies at Rice University and a PhD (2013) from the University of Chicago. His book Creating the Universe exposes complex cosmological thinking in Buddhist literature, ritual, art, and architecture.

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Éditeur
Brill
Date d'édition
2022
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
9004511415
ISBN 13 
9789004511415
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
316
Éditeur
Mak Bill M., Huntington Eric
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Personne responsable
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