Religion and Poetry in Medieval China : : The Way and the Words / / ed. by Gil Raz, Anna Shields.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023
• MitwirkendeR: Bokenkamp, Stephen R.,; Campany, Robert Ford,; Kleeman, Terry,; Kroll, Paul W.,; Lagerwey, John,; Pettit, J. E. E.,; Raz, Gil,; Robson, James,; Shields, Anna M.,; Verellen, Franciscus,; Zongyu, Wang,
• HerausgeberIn: Raz, Gil,; Shields, Anna,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Global Chinese Histories, 250-1650 ; 4
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (268 p.)

This volume of interdisciplinary essays examines the intersection of religion and literature in medieval China, focusing on the impact of Buddhism and Daoism on a wide range of elite and popular literary texts and religious practices in the 3rd-11th centuries CE. Drawing on the work of the interdisc...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Table of Contents
• Conventions for Frequently Cited Works
• Introduction
• 1. Brushing Past Rainbows: Religion and Poetry in the Xu Mi Stele
• 2. Li Bo and Hu Ziyang: Companions of the Way
• 3. The Vicarious Angler: Gao Pian’s Daoist Poetry
• 4. Traces of the Way : The Poetry of “Divine Transcendence” in the Northern Song Anthology Literature’s Finest (Wen cui 文粹)
• 5. A Re-examination of the Second Juan of the Array of the Five Talismans of the Numinous Treasure 太上靈寶五符序
• 6. “True Forms” and “True Faces”: Daoist and Buddhist Discourse on Images
• 7. After the Apocalypse: The Evolving Ethos of the Celestial Master Daoists
• 8. Shangqing Scriptures as Performative Texts
• 9. My Back Pages: The Sūtra in Forty-Two Chapters Revisited
• 10. Taking Stock
• Epilogue: Traversing the Golden Porte – The Problem with Daoist Studies
• Index