The Ghost Festival in Medieval China

Name: The Ghost Festival in Medieval China
Brand: Princeton University Press
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Stephen F. Teiser(Autor*in)

Princeton University Press

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Erschienen am 8. Dezember 2020

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Cover Page
Half-title Page
Title Page
Copyrights Page
Dedication Page
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Part One: Introduction
The Significance of the Ghost Festival
The Forms of Religion in Chinese Society
The Place of Buddhism in Chinese Society
Part Two: The Prehistory of the Ghost Festival
Antecedents in Indigenous Chinese Religion
The Monastic Schedule
Taoist Parallels
Conclusions
Part Three: An Episodic History of the Ghost Festival in Medieval China
The Canonical Sources: The Yii-lan-p'en Sutra and The Sutra on Offering Bowls to Repay Kindness (ca. 400-500)
Tsung Lin's Record of Seasonal Observances in Ching-ch'u (ca. 561)
The Pure Land Yii-lan-p'en Sutra (ca. 600-650)
Hui-ching's Commentary Praising the Yii-lan-p'en Siitra (ca. 636-639)
Tao-shih's Memorandum on Offerings to the Buddha (ca. 668)
Yang Chiung's "Yii-lan-p'en Rhapsody" (692)
Government Offerings According to the T'ang liu-tien (ca. 739)
The Celebration under Emperor Tai-tsung in 768
Poems and Celebrations under Emperor Te-tsung (r. 779-805)
The Transformation Text on Mu-lien Saving His Mother from the Dark Regions (ca. 800)
Tsung-mi's Commentary on the Yii-lan-p'en Siitra (ca. 830)
The Suppression of Yii-lan-p'en in 844
The Lecture Text on the Yii-lan-p'en Sutra (ca. 850)
Chih-yiian's "Hymns in Praise of Lan-p'en" (ca. 1020)
Postscript: The Ghost Festival after T'ang Times
Part Four: The Mythological Background
An Example
Mu-lien's Biography
Hungry Ghosts
Mothers and Monks
Conclusions
Appendix: The Buddha's Ascension to the Heaven of Thirty-three to Preach to His Mother
Part Five: Mu-lien as Shaman
The Chinese Background
The Buddhist Background
Mu-lien as Shaman
Conclusions
Part six: The Cosmology of the Ghost Festival
The Cosmology of The Transformation Text on Mu-lien Saving His Mother
Ghost Festival Cosmology in Context
Conclusions
Part Seven: Buddhism and the Family
The Bonds of Kinship
The Power of Monks
Conclusions
Part Eight: Concluding Perspectives
A Sociological Perspective
A Ritual Perspective
An Historical Perspective
Character Glossary of Chinese, Korean, and Japanese Words
Bibliography
Index

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