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The “Religion of Images”? Buddhist Image Worship in the Early Medieval Chinese Imagination |
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Greene, Eric M. (著)
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Journal of the American Oriental Society
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| Volume | v.138 n.3 |
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| Date | 2018.07-09 |
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| Pages | 455 - 484 |
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| Publisher | American Oriental Society |
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http://www.umich.edu/~aos/index.html
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| Location | Ann Arbor, MI, US [安娜堡, 密西根州, 美國] |
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| Content type | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Abstract | This paper explores how image worship was conceptualized and represented by Chinese authors during the first four centuries of Buddhist presence in China (to roughly 500 ce). Previous scholarship has argued that image worship was initially seen in China as a distinctively Buddhist practice, so much so that Buddhism was even known to the Chinese as the “Religion of Images” (xiangjiao 像教). By examining the history of the interpretation of this term, the evolution of stories about sacred images, and the presentation (or lack thereof) of image worship in debates about the compatibility of Buddhism with Chinese culture, I will argue that image worship was first seen as a distinctly Buddhist or non-Chinese practice only in the late fifth century. Ironically, image worship came to be seen or represented as “foreign” only long after it had already become part of most forms of Chinese religion. |
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| Table of contents | Introduction 455
The “Religion Of Images” (Xiangjiao 像教) 457
Image Worship in Anti- and Pro-Buddhist Apologetics 464
The Dream of Emperor Ming and The Origins of Chinese Buddhist Image Worship 469
Non-Buddhist Image Worship in China Between 100 And 500 Ce 472
The History of The History of Image Worship 477
Conventions And Abbreviations 478
Bibliography 478 |
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| ISSN | 00030279 (P); 21692289 (E) |
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| DOI | https://doi.org/10.7817/jameroriesoci.138.3.0455 |
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| Created date | 2023.07.11 |
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| Modified date | 2023.07.11 |
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