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The Scripture on the Ten Kings and the Making of Purgatory in Medieval Chinese Buddhism
Language: en
Pages: 372
Authors: Stephen F. Teiser
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-04-30 - Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

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An examination of medieval Chinese Buddhist thanatonic practices. Bridging area studies and the history of religions, Teiser explores the concerns, practices an
The Ghost Festival in Medieval China
Language: en
Pages: 300
Authors: Stephen F. Teiser
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1988 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

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Largely unstudied until now, the religious festivals that attracted Chinese people from all walks of life provide the most instructive examples of the interacti
Efficacious Underworld
Language: en
Pages: 225
Authors: Cheeyun Lilian Kwon
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-02-28 - Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

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The Ten Kings hanging scrolls at Tokyo’s Seikadō Bunko Art Museum are among the most resplendent renderings of the Buddhist purgatory extant, but their origi
The Buddhist Dead
Language: en
Pages: 505
Authors: Bryan J. Cuevas
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-04-30 - Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

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In its teachings, practices, and institutions, Buddhism in its varied Asian forms has been—and continues to be—centrally concerned with death and the dead.
Precious Volumes
Language: en
Pages: 457
Authors: Daniel L. Overmyer
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-08-25 - Publisher: BRILL

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"Precious volumes," or pao-chüan, were produced by popular sects in the Ming and early Qing dynasties. These scriptures were believed to have been divinely rev