For a thousand years across the length and breadth of China and beyond, people have burned paper replicas of valuable things—most often money—for the spirits of deceased family members, ancestors, and myriads of demons and divinities. Although frequently denigrated as wasteful and vulgar and at times prohibited by governing elites, today this venerable custom is as popular as e...(展开全部)

For a thousand years across the length and breadth of China and beyond, people have burned paper replicas of valuable things—most often money—for the spirits of deceased family members, ancestors, and myriads of demons and divinities. Although frequently denigrated as wasteful and vulgar and at times prohibited by governing elites, today this venerable custom is as popular as e...(展开全部)

John Kieschnick（柯嘉豪），美国斯坦福大学宗教研究系教授。研究方向为中国佛教，尤其关注佛教文化史。另著有The Eminent Monk: Buddhist Ideals in Medieval Chinese Hagiography（University of Hawaii Press，1997）。

自序 从1946初我开始学神学后，所阅读的首批著作中就有罗玛诺·瓜尔蒂尼(Romano Guardini)的一本着作<礼仪之精神>(Vom Geist des Liturgie)。此书在1918年复活节发表，直到1957年曾多次再版，本书开创了 “祈祷的教会”(Ecclesia Oraans)系列丛书，此系列是由赫伟根（Herwegen）院长主编的。这本小著述完全可以被视为是德国“礼仪运动”的起点，因为他以决定性的方式重新发现了礼仪之美、所蕴之富藏及其超越时间性之特点，这一发现竟使礼仪成为教会以及基督徒生活的中心。 这一著作所达到的效果就是：努力 “以最本质的方式”(瓜尔蒂尼喜欢用的表达词句)来举行礼仪。就是从礼仪最深之要求及其内在之形式来了解礼仪，将礼仪理解为受圣神默感并由同一圣神而引导的祈祷，在此礼仪中基督成为我们的同代人，并进入我们的生活。 我...(展开全部)

Discover a powerful new way to look at your money and your life. Where do our attitudes about money come from--and how do they influence our lives? How can we approach financial issues with honesty and without fear? In this groundbreaking book, renowned Buddhist teacher George Kinder, a Harvard-trained certified financial planner, demonstrates how we can literally transfo...(展开全部)