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Ancestors and anxiety : Daoism and the birth of rebirth in China

Bokenkamp, Stephen R. 1949- (author.).

Summary: 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: 1435601971
ISBN: 9781435601970
ISBN: 0520933346
ISBN: 9780520933347
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xi, 220 pages)
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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).