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The Ghost Festival in Medieval China
Stephen F. Teiser
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| #1710011 in Books | Princeton University Press | 1996-11-11 | 1996-12-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.74 x6.00l,.94 | File type: PDF | 296 pages | ||6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.| One man's ancestor is another man's ghost.|By PBjW|Students (of all ages) of Chinese culture and religion have at some point probably wondered how China reconciled some of the Indian roots of Buddhism with both Confucianism and China's own popular folk religions. Or conversely, why there seem to be Indian or Sanskrit elements in Chinese practices. This book, which is virtually|From Scientific American|An admirable attempt to focus on the interstices of Chinese and Buddhist conceptions of the afterlife.||Co-Winner of the 1988 Best First Book Prize in the History of Religions, American Council o
Largely unstudied until now, the religious festivals that attracted Chinese people from all walks of life provide the most instructive examples of the interaction between Chinese forms of social life and the Indian tradition of Buddhism. Stephen Teiser examines one of the most important of such annual celebrations. He provides a comprehensive interpretation of the festivities of the seventh lunar month, in which laypeople presented offerings to Buddhist monks to gain ...
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