| Description |
xxiii, 375 pages ; 25 cm |
| Note |
Translated from Chinese. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-367). |
| Contents |
The Book of changes -- The Book of history -- Inscriptions from ritual bronzes -- The Book of odes -- The Tso chuan -- The Rites of Chou -- The Book of rites -- The Analects of Confucius -- Mo Tzu -- Mencius -- Hsün Tzu -- The Tao-te ching of Lao Tzu -- Chuang Tzu -- The Songs of the South -- Wang Fu's Discourses of a recluse -- Pan Chao's perfected woman -- The unattainable goddess -- The Buddhist pure land -- The Lotus sutra -- Emptiness is form -- The holy teaching of Vimalakīrti -- Meditations on the body -- Alchemical recipes for immortality -- The mind-to-mind transmission of the Dharma -- Nailing a stick into empty space : Ch'an Master I-Hsüan -- The poetry of cold mountain -- The writings of Han Yü -- In search of a woman's spirit : the poetry of Po Chü-i -- The great ultimate of Chou Tun-i -- All people are brothers and sisters : Chang Tsai's Western inscription -- The writings of Chu Hsi -- Chi'en Ch'un's Learning of the way -- The way of the Taoist tradition of perfect truth -- A woman adept attains the way -- Mortal love and divine retribution in Yüan drama -- The writings of Wang Yang-ming -- Poetry of the spirit -- Monkey's journey to the West -- Tales of the supernatural -- Confessions of a ghost -- The story of the stone -- Lu Hsün's critique of tradition -- The hypocrisy of modern Confucianism -- Mao Tse-tung overthrows religious authority -- The cult of Mao -- The revival of the spiritual tradtion : the God of theater -- The fall of the goddess -- Contemporary Ch'an practice : Ch'an Master Shen-yen's Faith in mind -- Buddhism comes to America. |
| Subject |
China -- Religion -- Sources.
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Philosophy, Chinese -- History -- Sources.
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| Indexed Term |
Religion |
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China |
| Added Author |
Sommer, Deborah, 1956-
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| ISBN |
0195088948 (acid-free paper) |
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9780195088946 (acid-free paper) |
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0195088956 (pbk. : acid-free paper) |
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9780195088953 (pbk. : acid-free paper) |
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