Conceiving the Indian Buddhist patriarchs in China /
This study sutiates the medieval Chinese hagiographies of Asvaghoa, Nagarjuna, and Aryadeva in the context of Chinese religion, culture, and society of the time. It examines these sources not as windows into ancient Indian history but as valuable records of medieval Chinese efforts to define models...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English Chinese |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawaiʻi Press,
2015.
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| Series: | Studies in East Asian Buddhism ;
no. 24. |
| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt13x1j7c |
Table of Contents:
- Buddhist sainthood in dharmic history
- An Indian lineage severed
- Salvation in writing and the annex of Indian Buddhism
- Nagarjuna divine and the alchemy of hagiography
- An Indian silkworm god in China
- Buddhist saints to bridge the Sino-Indian divide.