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The Ghost Festival in Medieval China |
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Teiser, Stephen F. (著)
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| Date | 1988 |
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| Pages | 296 |
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| Publisher | Princeton University Press |
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https://press.princeton.edu/
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| Location | New Jersey, US [紐澤西州, 美國] |
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| Content type | 書籍=Book |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Abstract | Largely unstudied until now, the religious festivals that attracted Chinese people from all walks of life provide the most instructive examples of the interaction between Chinese forms of social life and the Indian tradition of Buddhism. Stephen Teiser examines one of the most important of such annual celebrations. He provides a comprehensive interpretation of the festivities of the seventh lunar month, in which laypeople presented offerings to Buddhist monks to gain salvation for their ancestors. Teiser uncovers a wide range of sources, many translated or analyzed for the first time in any language, to demonstrate how the symbolism, rituals, and mythology of the ghost festival pervaded the social landscape of medieval China. |
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| Table of contents | Introduction 3
The Significance of the Ghost Festival 10
The Place of Buddhism in Chinese Society 20
The Prehistory of the Ghost Festival 26
Taoist Parallels 35
An Episodic History of the Ghost Festival 43
Tsung Lins Record of Seasonal Observances in Chingchu ca 561 56
Huichings Commentary Praising the Yülanpen Sūtra ca 636639 63
Yang Chiungs Yülanpen Rhapsody 692 71
Government Offerings According to the Tang liutien ca 739 77
Poems and Celebrations under Emperor Tetsung r 779805 83
Tsungmis Commentary on the Yülanpen Sūtra ca 830 91
The Mythological Background 113
Mulien as Shaman 140
The Cosmology of the Ghost Festival 168
Buddhism and the Family 196
Concluding Perspectives 214
Character Glossary of Chinese Korean 225
Index 265
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| ISBN | 9780691026770 (pbk); 0691026777 (pbk) |
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| Related reviews | - Three Styles in the Study of (Chinese) Ritual / Liu, Xin (評論)
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| Created date | 2023.10.06 |
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| Modified date | 2023.10.06 |
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