[PDF.47xw] Power of Place: The Religious Landscape of the Southern Sacred Peak (Nanyue 南嶽) in Medieval China (Harvard East Asian Monographs)

Power of Place: The Religious Landscape of the Southern Sacred Peak (Nanyue 南嶽) in Medieval China (Harvard East Asian Monographs)

[PDF.fl80] Power of Place: The Religious Landscape of the Southern Sacred Peak (Nanyue 南嶽) in Medieval China (Harvard East Asian Monographs)

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 | #2623610 in Books |  Harvard University Asia Center |  2009-10-30 |  2009-11-29 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.02 x1.38 x5.98l,2.08 | File type: PDF | 450 pages

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| A fascinating and well-written book !|By Boutonnet|This work, clear and precise, is important for at least two reasons. On the one hand, it demonstrates the interest of so-called "Buddho-Daoist Studies" which revolve around the complex interactions between these two traditions. It would be actually pointless to address these two issues separately in a diachronic approach. On th| |This volume breaks new ground in the ever-growing body of scholarship on important mountains in China, and thus deserves the close attention of anyone interested in Chinese culture in general and Chinese religious history in particular. (J. M. Hargett Choic

Throughout Chinese history mountains have been integral components of the religious landscape. They have been considered divine or numinous sites, the abodes of deities, the preferred locations for temples and monasteries, and destinations for pilgrims. Early in Chinese history a set of five mountains were co-opted into the imperial cult and declared sacred peaks, yue, demarcating and protecting the boundaries of the Chinese imperium.

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