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Signs from the Unseen Realm - Buddhist Miracle Tales from Early Medieval China
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Signs from the Unseen Realm - Buddhist Miracle Tales from Early Medieval China
Series: Kuroda Classics in East Asian Buddhism
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In early medieval China hundreds of Buddhist miracle texts were
circulated, inaugurating a trend that would continue for centuries.
Each tale recounted extraordinary events involving Chinese persons
and places—events seen as verifying claims made in Buddhist
scriptures, demonstrating the reality of karmic retribution, or
confirming the efficacy of Buddhist devotional practices. Robert
Ford Campany, one of North America’s preeminent scholars of
Chinese religion, presents in this volume the first complete,
annotated translation, with in-depth commentary, of the largest
extant collection of miracle tales from the early medieval period,
Wang Yan’s Records of Signs from the Unseen Realm, compiled
around 490 C.E. In addition to the translation, Campany provides a
substantial study of the text and its author in their historical
and religious settings. He shows how these lively tales helped
integrate Buddhism into Chinese society at the same time that they
served as platforms for religious contestation and persuasion.
Campany offers a nuanced, clear methodological discussion of how
such narratives, being products of social memory, may be read as
valuable evidence for the history of religion and culture. Readers
interested in Buddhism; historians of Chinese religions, culture,
society, and literature; scholars of comparative religion: All will
find Signs from the Unseen Realm a stimulating and rich
contribution to scholarship.
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Imprint: |
University of Hawaii Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Kuroda Classics in East Asian Buddhism |
Release date: |
June 2023 |
Authors: |
Robert Ford Campany
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Translators: |
Robert Ford Campany
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
324 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8248-9682-9 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
0-8248-9682-3 |
Barcode: |
9780824896829 |
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