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Chinese Poetry and Prophecy

The Written Oracle in East Asia

By: Michel Strickmann,Bernard Faure

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The Written Oracle in East Asia

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Stanford University Press

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0804743347

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9780804743341

Chinese Poetry and Prophecy

The Written Oracle in East Asia

By: Michel Strickmann,Bernard Faure

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Chinese Poetry and Prophecy

The Written Oracle in East Asia

By: Michel Strickmann

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The Written Oracle in East Asia

By: Michel Strickmann

Focusing on oracular texts, Chinese Poetry and Prophecy examines the role of divination in Chinese culture, particularly in religious practice. Drawing on a dazzling array of ancient and modern sources, the author establishes the oracular sequence of important but obscure works in his celebrated engaging style. This is the second posthumous work of Michel Strickmann to be to be edited by Bernard Faure for publication by Stanford University Press.

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1503619761

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Chinese Magical Medicine

By: Michel Strickmann

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Chinese Magical Medicine

By: Michel Strickmann

Possibly the most profound and far-reaching effects of Buddhism on Chinese culture occurred at the level of practice in religious rituals designed to cure people of disease, demonic possession, and bad luck. A basic concern with healing characterizes the entire gamut of religious expression in East Asia. By concentrating on the medieval development of Chinese therapeutic ritual, the author discovers the origins of many surviving rituals across the social and doctrinal frontiers of Buddhism and Taoism, including transmission to persons outside the Buddhist or Taoist fold. The author describes and translates many classical Chinese liturgies, analyzes their structure, and seeks out nonliturgical sources to shed further light on the politics involved in specific performances. Unlike the few previous studies of related rituals, this book combines a scholar's understanding of structure and goals of these rites with a healthy suspicion of the practitioners' claims to uniqueness.

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418

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ARC: Asian Religions and Cultu

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0804739404

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9780804739405

Chinese Magical Medicine

By: Michel Strickmann

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Chinese Magical Medicine

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This book argues that the most profound and far-reaching effects of Buddhism on Chinese culture occurred at the level of practice, specifically in religious rituals designed to cure people of disease, demonic possession, and bad luck. This practice would leave its most lasting imprint on the liturgical tradition of Taoism. In focusing on religious practice, it provides a corrective to traditional studies of Chinese religion, which overemphasize metaphysics and spirituality. A basic concern with healing characterizes the entire gamut of religious expression in East Asia. By concentrating on the medieval development of Chinese therapeutic ritual, the author discovers the germinal core of many still-current rituals across the social and doctrinal frontiers of Buddhism and Taoism, as well as outside the Buddhist or Taoist fold. The book is based on close readings of liturgies written in classical Chinese. The author describes and translates many of them, analyzes their structure, and seeks out nonliturgical sources to shed further light on the politics involved in specific performances. Unlike the few previous studies of related rituals, this book combines a scholar's understanding of the structure and goals of these rites with a healthy suspicion of the practitioners' claims to uniqueness.

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1503617793

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Chinese Poetry and Prophecy

Chinese Poetry and Prophecy

Chinese Poetry and Prophecy

Chinese Poetry and Prophecy

Chinese Poetry and Prophecy

Chinese Poetry and Prophecy

Chinese Magical Medicine

Chinese Magical Medicine

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