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Why Has the Rhinoceros Come from the West? An Excursus into the Religious, Literary, and Environmental History of the Tang Dynasty
Author Heller, Natasha
Source Journal of the American Oriental Society
Volumev.131 n.3
Date2011.07-09
Pages353 - 370
PublisherAmerican Oriental Society
Publisher Url http://www.umich.edu/~aos/index.html
LocationAnn Arbor, MI, US [安娜堡, 密西根州, 美國]
Content type期刊論文=Journal Article
Language英文=English
NoteAuthor Affiliations: University of California, Los Angeles
KeywordRHINOCEROSES; ANIMALS -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism; BUDDHISM; HISTORY; CHINESE literature; TANG dynasty, 618-907; DONGSHAN Liangjie
AbstractThe article presents an examination into the cultural and literary treatment of the rhinoceros in China during the era of the Tang dynasty. Subjects addressed include the religious symbolism attributed to the rhinoceros and its horn within 8th-century Chinese Buddhism, the cultural association of the rhinoceros as exotic rather than local, and references to the "chicken-scaring rhinoceros" by the scholar Dongshan Liangjie.
ISSN00030279 (P); 21692289 (E)
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Created date2015.01.20
Modified date2019.10.21



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