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Ancestors and anxiety : Daoism and the birth of rebirth in China / Stephen R. Bokenkamp.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2007]Description: 1 online resource (xi, 220 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780520933347
  • 0520933346
  • 9781435601970
  • 1435601971
Other title:
  • Daoism and the birth of rebirth in China
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Ancestors and anxiety.DDC classification:
  • 299.5/14237 22
LOC classification:
  • BL1920
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.

"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.

Online resource; title from digital title page (JSTOR, viewed February 24, 2022).