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Ancestors and Anxiety: Daoism and the Birth of Rebirth in China
Stephen R. Bokenkamp
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| #2127140 in Books | 2009-02-04 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.70 x6.00l,.80 | File type: PDF | 234 pages||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| Re-imaging the netherworld|By Farmer John|In this book, Stephen Bokenkamp deals with the arrival of Buddhism to China and its effects on native Chinese conceptions of death and the afterlife. He traces a shift between Eastern Han conceptions of death, which treat ancestral worship as a private matter and stress the ability of the ancestors to influence the world of the living,|From the Inside Flap|
"Ancestors and Anxiety focuses on one of the most important periods in the history of Chinese religion, the third through sixth centuries C.E., when social and political changes were matched by innovation and an outpouring of tex
This innovative work on Chinese concepts of the afterlife is the result of Stephen Bokenkamp's groundbreaking study of Chinese scripture and the incorporation of Indic concepts into the Chinese worldview. Here, he explores how Chinese authors, including Daoists and non-Buddhists, received and deployed ideas about rebirth from the third to the sixth centuries C.E. In tracing the antecedents of these scriptures, Bokenkamp uncovers a stunning array of non-Buddhist acco...
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