E-book
Ancestors and anxiety : Daoism and the birth of rebirth in China / Stephen R. Bokenkamp.
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780520933347
- ISBN: 0520933346
- ISBN: 9781435601970
- ISBN: 1435601971
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (xi, 220 pages)
- Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2007]
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "A Philip E. Lilienthal book"--page [ii]. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-213) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
| Restrictions on Access Note: | NLC staff and students only. |
| Source of Description Note: | Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (JSTOR, viewed February 24, 2022). |
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| Subject: | Taoism. Reincarnation > Buddhism. |
| Genre: | Electronic books. Electronic books. |
