[PDF.06wq] Laughing at the Dao: Debates among Buddhists and Daoists in Medieval China

Laughing at the Dao: Debates among Buddhists and Daoists in Medieval China

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 | #2770379 in Books |  University of Hawaii Press |  2009-09-15 |  2009-09-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.02 x.64 x5.98l,.93 | File type: PDF | 286 pages

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|| |The book makes available a very important and intrinsically interesting episode in Chinese intellectual history to both academic and general audiences. This book goes a long way toward filling a considerable gap in English-language studies of this field. --Rob

The Xiaodao lun (Laughing at the Dao) is an important document of the debates among Buddhists and Daoists in sixth-century China. These debates contributed to the process of cultural adaptation of Buddhism, which had to accommodate itself to the worldview of the Confucian elite, the Chinese sense of ethnic superiority, and China's indigenous religion of Daoism. Written by the Daoist renegade Zhen Luan in the year 570, the text aims to expose inconsistencies in ...

You easily download any file type for your device.Laughing at the Dao: Debates among Buddhists and Daoists in Medieval China   |  Livia Kohn.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.

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