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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aCampany, Robert Ford
_eautore
245 1 0 _aSigns from the Unseen Realm :
_bBuddhist Miracle Tales from Early Medieval China /
_cRobert Ford Campany.
264 1 _aHonolulu :
_bUniversity of Hawaii Press,
_c[2012]
264 4 _c©2012
300 _a1 online resource (328 p.) :
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490 0 _aKuroda Classics in East Asian Buddhism ;
_v16
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tPreface --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tConventions --
_tPart I. Signs from the Unseen Realm and Buddhist Miracle Tales in Early Medieval China --
_tIntroduction --
_tWang Yan and the Making of Mingxiang ji --
_tMiracle Tales and the Communities That Exchanged Them --
_tThe Idiom of Buddhism Represented in the Tales --
_tMiracle Tales and the Sinicization of Buddhism --
_tThe Narrative Shape of the Miraculous --
_tReligious Themes in the Text --
_tPart II. Translation: Signs from the Unseen Realm --
_tPreface --
_t1(27)-25(269) --
_t26(277)-129(967) --
_tAppendix 1. Fragments and Questionable Items --
_tAppendix 2. List of Major Motifs --
_tBibliography --
_tIndex --
_tAbout the Author
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aIn 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.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)
650 7 _aHISTORY / Medieval.
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700 1 _aCampany, Robert Ford
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700 1 _aYan, Wang
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850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9780824865719
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