India in the Chinese imagination : myth, religion, and thought / edited by John Kieschnick and Meir Shahar.
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| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
©2014.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Encounters with Asia.
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Table of Contents:
- Transformation as imagination in medieval popular Buddhist literature / Victor H. Mair
- Indian mythology and the Chinese imagination : Nezha, Nalakūbara, and Kṛṣṇa / Meir Shahar
- Indic influences on Chinese mythology : King Yama and his acolytes as gods of destiny / Bernard Faure
- Indian myth transformed in a Chinese apocryphal text : two stories on the Buddha's hidden organ / Nobuyoshi Yamabe
- From bodily relic to dharma relic stūpa : Chinese materialization of the Aśoka legend in the Wuyue period / Shi Zhiru
- "Ancestral transmission" in Chinese Buddhist monasteries : the example of the Shaolin Temple / Ye Derong
- The hagiography of Bodhidharma : reconstructing the point of origin of Chinese Chan Buddhism / John R. McRae
- Is nirvāṇa the same as insentience? Chinese struggles with an Indian Buddhist ideal / Robert H. Sharf
- Karma and the bonds of kinship in medieval Daoism : reconciling the irreconcilable / Christine Mollier
- This foreign religion of ours : Lingbao views of Buddhist translation / Stephen R. Bokenkamp.