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Transcendents in Translation: Buddhist Affordances for Imagining xian 仙 in China |
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Buckelew, Kevin (著)
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Journal of Chinese Religions=中國宗教研究集刊
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| Volume | v.51 n.2 |
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| Date | 2023.12 |
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| Pages | 171 - 205 |
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| Publisher | Johns Hopkins University Press |
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https://www.press.jhu.edu/
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| Location | Baltimore, MD, US [巴爾的摩, 馬里蘭州, 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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| Note | Author Affiliation: Northwestern University, USA. |
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| Keyword | Buddhism; Daoism; Chan; inner alchemy; neidan; xian; transcendents |
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| Abstract | Many Buddhist scriptures in Chinese translation render the Indic ṛṣi (non-Buddhist sage or ascetic) as the Chinese xian 仙 (transcendent). This article explores how such a nativizing act of translation afforded Chinese users of Buddhist scriptures, from the medieval to the late imperial periods, various interpretive and polemical opportunities. Sometimes the appearance of xian in Buddhist scriptures facilitated Chinese Buddhist polemics against Daoism, but in other cases the same Buddhist xian provided Daoists the chance to appropriate Buddhist ideas into a Daoist soteriological framework. Still other cases involved complex negotiations over the precise meaning of xian, the nuances of which we must carefully tease out. Besides exploring many cases that illuminate the Chinese reception of Buddhist references to xian, I suggest that the concept of "affordance" is useful for analyzing the ramifications carried by particular translation choices made during the rendering of Buddhist scriptures into Chinese. |
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| Table of contents | Xian, Arhats, and Bodhisattvas in the Mountains 175
Categorizing Xian 182
Five-Penetration Xian and the Exhaustion of Outflows 189
Conclusion 200
Acknowledgements 201
Bibliography 201
Primary Sources 202
Secondary Sources 203
Notes on the Contributor 205 |
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| ISSN | 0737769X (P); 20508999 (E) |
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| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1353/jcr.2023.a913655 |
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| Created date | 2024.04.09 |
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| Modified date | 2024.04.09 |
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