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Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 299.514237 EAN: 9780520249486 ISBN: 0520249488 Label: University of California Press Manufacturer: University of California Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 232 Publication Date: 2007-08-02 Publisher: University of California Press Studio: University of California Press
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Editorial Reviews: 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.