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Ancestors and Anxiety - Daoism and the Birth of Rebirth in China (Paperback)
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Ancestors and Anxiety - Daoism and the Birth of Rebirth in China (Paperback)
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This innovative work on Chinese concepts of the afterlife is the
result of Stephen Bokenkamp's groundbreaking study of Chinese
scripture and the incorporation of Indic concepts into the Chinese
worldview. Here, he explores how Chinese authors, including Daoists
and non-Buddhists, received and deployed ideas about rebirth from
the third to the sixth centuries C.E. In tracing the antecedents of
these scriptures, Bokenkamp uncovers a stunning array of
non-Buddhist accounts that provide detail on the realms of the
dead, their denizens, and human interactions with them. Bokenkamp
demonstrates that the motive for the Daoist acceptance of Buddhist
notions of rebirth lay not so much in the power of these ideas as
in the work they could be made to do.
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