Contents Acknowledgments Note on Translation Introduction: The Problem of Rebirth 1. Envisioning the Dead 2. The Unquiet Dead and Their Families, Political and Agnate 3. Questionable Shapes: How the Living Interrogated Their Dead 4. Doomed for a Certain Term: The Intimate Dead 5. Rebirth Reborn Postscript List of Abbreviations Bibliography Index

Contents Acknowledgments Note on Translation Introduction: The Problem of Rebirth 1. Envisioning the Dead 2. The Unquiet Dead and Their Families, Political and Agnate 3. Questionable Shapes: How the Living Interrogated Their Dead 4. Doomed for a Certain Term: The Intimate Dead 5. Rebirth Reborn Postscript List of Abbreviations Bibliography Index

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...(展开全部)

This volume sheds new light on the matter of religious mountain culture in China – a theme of great relevance to the Chinese civilization. Already during the Chinese antiquity, mountains had specific ritual functions. This may be seen as a precursor to the importance mountains gained when in medieval China Buddhism and Daoism emerged as dominant religions. Adepts of both religi...(展开全部)

This is the first book to examine extensively the religious aspects of Chinese alchemy. Its main focus is the relation of alchemy to the Daoist traditions of the early medieval period (third to sixth centuries). It shows how alchemy contributed to and was tightly integrated into the elaborate body of doctrines and practices that Daoists built at that time, from which Daoism as ...(展开全部)

The question of truth has never been more urgent than today, when the distortion of facts and the imposition of pseudo-realities in the service of the powerful have become the order of the day. In The Paradox of Being Poul Andersen addresses the concept of truth in Chinese Daoist philosophy and ritual. His approach is unapologetically universalist, and the book may be read as a...(展开全部)

诺曼·吉瑞德（Norman J. Girardot），1943年生，原为圣玛利亚大学神学系教授，现任美国理海大学宗教研究所杰出教授；国际知名哲学、艺术学、宗教学学者，曾任国际比较史学杂志《宗教史》编辑。一直致力于中国宗教传统尤其是道教的研究与教学。其他研究领域包括流行宗教运动，中国思想史，比较宗教学，宗教与非主流艺术的关系等。撰写、评介、编辑及翻译相关著作多部，其中《道教与生态：宇宙景观的内在之道》（2001，主编）及《朝觐东方：理雅各评传》（2002，独著，此书获得美国费正清汉学研究奖，美国宗教学优秀奖）已译成中文与广大中国读者见面。 译者简介：蔡觉敏，女，北京大学古代文学博士，天津外国语大学副教授。发表论文有《〈水浒传〉与道家道教》、《生命困局、思想与文学的相近与不同——庄子与屈原异同浅论》等论文几十篇，与人合作编辑《道家道教与湖南》一书，著有《...(展开全部)