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The Ghost Festival in Medieval China / Stephen F. Teiser.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©1988Description: 1 online resource (296 p.) : 1 halftoneContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691222172
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 294.3/438 19
LOC classification:
  • BQ5720.U6
  • BQ5720.U6
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- ONE Introduction -- TWO The Prehistory of the Ghost Festival -- THREE An Episodic History of the Ghost Festival in Medieval China -- FOUR The Mythological Background -- FIVE Mu-lien as Shaman -- SIX The Cosmology of the Ghost Festival -- SEVEN Buddhism and the Family -- EIGHT Concluding Perspectives -- Character Glossary of Chinese, Korean, and Japanese Words -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: 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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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- ONE Introduction -- TWO The Prehistory of the Ghost Festival -- THREE An Episodic History of the Ghost Festival in Medieval China -- FOUR The Mythological Background -- FIVE Mu-lien as Shaman -- SIX The Cosmology of the Ghost Festival -- SEVEN Buddhism and the Family -- EIGHT Concluding Perspectives -- Character Glossary of Chinese, Korean, and Japanese Words -- Bibliography -- Index

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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