Imperiled Destinies examines the evolution of Daoist beliefs about human liability and redemption over eight centuries and outlines ritual procedures for rescuing an ill‐starred destiny. From the second through the tenth century CE, Daoism emerged as a liturgical organization that engaged vigorously with Buddhism and transformed Chinese thinking about suffering, the nature of e...(展开全部)

作者太史文（Stephen F. Teiser），普林斯顿大学铃木大拙讲座教授、宗教学系终身教授。 太史文早年毕业于欧柏林学院，后就读于普林斯顿大学宗教学系，主攻东亚宗教，1986年获博士学位。太史文的博士论文题目为《中国中世纪的盂兰盆节》，这篇论文为他今后研究中国中世纪的民间信仰打下了基础，1988年，他在原博士论文的基础上修订出版了他的成名作——《中国中世纪的鬼节》（The Ghost Festival in Medieval China, Princeton University Press, 1988）。 译者侯旭东，清华大学人文学院历史系教授。 北京师范大学历史系博士，历任中国社会科学院历史研究所研究员、清华大学人文学院历史系教授。曾在美国哈佛大学、台湾“中研院”历史语言研究所做访问学人。主要研究魏晋南北朝史，兼及秦汉。先后从事东晋南朝经济...(展开全部)

Largely unstudied until now, the religious festivals that attracted Chinese people from all walks of life provide the most instructive examples of the interaction between Chinese forms of social life and the Indian tradition of Buddhism. Stephen Teiser examines one of the most important of such annual celebrations. He provides a comprehensive interpretation of the festivities o...(展开全部)

Andrew Eisenberg, Ph.D. (1991) in History, University of Washington, Seattle, is Associate Professor of History at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago. He has published essays on Classical Chinese political history in the journals T'ang Studies, Theory and Society, and T'oung Pao. This is his first full length monograph.

Picturing the True Form investigates the long-neglected visual culture of Daoism, China's primary indigenous religion, from the tenth through thirteenth centuries with references to earlier and later times. In this richly illustrated book, Susan Huang provides a comprehensive mapping of Daoist images in various media, including Dunhuang manuscripts, funerary artifacts, painting...(展开全部)

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

Abstract: Having recovered from political persecution and resolved problems within the sangha, Buddhism reached a summit in its development during Sui and Early Tang China (581-755). Daoxuan (596-667) played an unparalleled role in shaping the direction of Buddhist history during the medieval period through both his rich writings and his innovations of monastic rituals and regu...(展开全部)

Consciousness is one of science's last great unsolved mysteries. How can the salty taste and crunchy texture of potato chips, the unmistakable smell of dogs after they have been in the rain, or the exhilarating feeling of hanging on tiny fingerholds many feet above the last secure foothold on a cliff, emerge from networks of neurons and their associated synaptic and molecular p...(展开全部)