India in the Chinese Imagination : : Myth, Religion, and Thought / / ed. by Meir Shahar, John Kieschnick.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
• MitwirkendeR: Bokenkamp, Stephen R.,; Derong, Ye,; Faure, Bernard,; Mair, Victor H.,; McRae, John R.,; Mollier, Christine,; Shahar, Meir,; Sharf, Robert H.,; Yamabe, Nobuyoshi,; Zhiru, Shi,
• HerausgeberIn: Kieschnick, John,; Shahar, Meir,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2013]; ©2014
• Argitaratze-urtea: 2013
• Hizkuntza: English
• Saila: Encounters with Asia
• Deskribapen fisikoa: 1 online resource (320 p.) :; 20 illus.

India and China dominate the Asian continent but are separated by formidable geographic barriers and language differences. For many centuries, most of the information that passed between the two lands came through Silk Route intermediaries in lieu of first-person encounters-leaving considerable room...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction
• Part I. Indian Mythology and the Chinese Imagination
• Chapter 1. Transformation as Imagination in Medieval Popular Buddhist Literature
• Chapter 2. Indian Mythology and the Chinese Imagination: Nezha, Nalakūbara, and Kṛṣṇạ
• Chapter 3. Indic Influences on Chinese Mythology: King Yama and His Acolytes as Gods of Destiny
• Chapter 4. Indian Myth Transformed in a Chinese Apocryphal Text: Two Stories on the Buddha's Hidden Organ
• Part II. India in Chinese Imaginings of the Past
• Chapter 5. From Bodily Relic to Dharma Relic Stūpa: Chinese Materialization of the Aśoka Legend in the Wuyue Period
• Chapter 6. "Ancestral Transmission" in Chinese Buddhist Monasteries: The Example of the Shaolin Temple
• Chapter 7. The Hagiography of Bodhidharma: Reconstructing the Point of Origin of Chinese Chan Buddhism
• Part III. Chinese Rethinking of Indian Buddhism
• Chapter 8. Is Nirvāṇa the Same as Insentience? Chinese Struggles with an Indian Buddhist Ideal
• Chapter 9. Karma and the Bonds of Kinship in Medieval Daoism: Reconciling the Irreconcilable
• Chapter 10. This Foreign Religion of Ours: Lingbao Views of Buddhist Translation
• Glossary
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Contributors
• Index