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Signs from the Unseen Realm : Buddhist Miracle Tales from Early Medieval China / Robert Ford Campany.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Kuroda Classics in East Asian Buddhism ; 16Publisher: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (328 p.) : 1 mapContent type:
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  • 9780824836023
  • 9780824865719
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Conventions -- Part I. Signs from the Unseen Realm and Buddhist Miracle Tales in Early Medieval China -- Introduction -- Wang Yan and the Making of Mingxiang ji -- Miracle Tales and the Communities That Exchanged Them -- The Idiom of Buddhism Represented in the Tales -- Miracle Tales and the Sinicization of Buddhism -- The Narrative Shape of the Miraculous -- Religious Themes in the Text -- Part II. Translation: Signs from the Unseen Realm -- Preface -- 1(27)-25(269) -- 26(277)-129(967) -- Appendix 1. Fragments and Questionable Items -- Appendix 2. List of Major Motifs -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author
Summary: In early medieval China hundreds of Buddhist miracle texts were circulated, inaugurating a trend that would continue for centuries. Each tale recounted extraordinary events involving Chinese persons and places-events seen as verifying claims made in Buddhist scriptures, demonstrating the reality of karmic retribution, or confirming the efficacy of Buddhist devotional practices. Robert Ford Campany, one of North America's preeminent scholars of Chinese religion, presents in this volume the first complete, annotated translation, with in-depth commentary, of the largest extant collection of miracle tales from the early medieval period, Wang Yan's Records of Signs from the Unseen Realm, compiled around 490 C.E.In addition to the translation, Campany provides a substantial study of the text and its author in their historical and religious settings. He shows how these lively tales helped integrate Buddhism into Chinese society at the same time that they served as platforms for religious contestation and persuasion. Campany offers a nuanced, clear methodological discussion of how such narratives, being products of social memory, may be read as valuable evidence for the history of religion and culture.Readers interested in Buddhism; historians of Chinese religions, culture, society, and literature; scholars of comparative religion: All will find Signs from the Unseen Realm a stimulating and rich contribution to scholarship.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Conventions -- Part I. Signs from the Unseen Realm and Buddhist Miracle Tales in Early Medieval China -- Introduction -- Wang Yan and the Making of Mingxiang ji -- Miracle Tales and the Communities That Exchanged Them -- The Idiom of Buddhism Represented in the Tales -- Miracle Tales and the Sinicization of Buddhism -- The Narrative Shape of the Miraculous -- Religious Themes in the Text -- Part II. Translation: Signs from the Unseen Realm -- Preface -- 1(27)-25(269) -- 26(277)-129(967) -- Appendix 1. Fragments and Questionable Items -- Appendix 2. List of Major Motifs -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author

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In early medieval China hundreds of Buddhist miracle texts were circulated, inaugurating a trend that would continue for centuries. Each tale recounted extraordinary events involving Chinese persons and places-events seen as verifying claims made in Buddhist scriptures, demonstrating the reality of karmic retribution, or confirming the efficacy of Buddhist devotional practices. Robert Ford Campany, one of North America's preeminent scholars of Chinese religion, presents in this volume the first complete, annotated translation, with in-depth commentary, of the largest extant collection of miracle tales from the early medieval period, Wang Yan's Records of Signs from the Unseen Realm, compiled around 490 C.E.In addition to the translation, Campany provides a substantial study of the text and its author in their historical and religious settings. He shows how these lively tales helped integrate Buddhism into Chinese society at the same time that they served as platforms for religious contestation and persuasion. Campany offers a nuanced, clear methodological discussion of how such narratives, being products of social memory, may be read as valuable evidence for the history of religion and culture.Readers interested in Buddhism; historians of Chinese religions, culture, society, and literature; scholars of comparative religion: All will find Signs from the Unseen Realm a stimulating and rich contribution to scholarship.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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