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Bokenkamp, Stephen R., 1949-

Ancestors and anxiety : Daoism and the birth of rebirth in China / Daoism and the birth of rebirth in China Stephen R. Bokenkamp. - 1 online resource (xi, 220 pages)

"A Philip E. Lilienthal book"--Page ii

Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-213) and index.

Introduction : the problem of rebirth -- Envisioning the dead -- The unquiet dead and their families, political and agnate -- Questionable shapes : how the living interrogated their dead -- Doomed for a certain term : the intimate dead -- Rebirth reborn.

Explores how Chinese authors, including Daoists and non-Buddhists, received and deployed ideas about rebirth from the third to the sixth centuries CE. This book aims to uncover an array of non-Buddhist accounts that provide detail on the realms of the dead, their denizens, and human interactions with them.

ISBN: 9780520933347 0520933346 9781435601970 1435601971

Source: 22573/cttt44k0 JSTOR

LCCN: 2021696998

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Taoism.
Reincarnation--Buddhism.
Taoïsme.
Réincarnation--Bouddhisme.
Taoism.
RELIGION--Taoism.
Reincarnation--Buddhism
Taoism
Taoismus
Wiedergeburt
Taoismus--Reinkarnation.
Reinkarnation--Taoismus.
Buddhismus--Reinkarnation.
Reinkarnation--Buddhismus.
Taoismus--Wiedergeburt--Buddhismus--Geschichte--0200-0600.
Wiedergeburt--Buddhismus--Geschichte--China--0200-0600.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
China
China--Unsterblichkeit--Vorstellung--Geschichte--0200-0600.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: BL1920

Dewey Class. No.: 299.5/14237