Making transcendents: ascetics and social memory in early medieval China
Bringing transcendents down to earth -- The transcendent's cultural repertoire -- Deeper repertoire analysis: "avoiding grains" -- Secret arts, manifest wonders -- Verbal self-presentation and audience response -- Adepts and their communities -- Adepts, their families, and the imperiu...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Published: |
Honolulu
University of Hawai'i Press
2017
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| In: | Year: 2017 |
| Edition: | Paperback edition |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Taoism
/ Asceticism
/ China
/ Memory
/ History
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| IxTheo Classification: | BM Chinese universism; Confucianism; Taoism |
| Further subjects: | B
Asceticism
Taoism
History To 1500
B China B Taoism Social aspects (China) History To 1500 B Taoism ; Social aspects B History |
| Summary: | Bringing transcendents down to earth -- The transcendent's cultural repertoire -- Deeper repertoire analysis: "avoiding grains" -- Secret arts, manifest wonders -- Verbal self-presentation and audience response -- Adepts and their communities -- Adepts, their families, and the imperium -- Hagiographic persuasions. |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-289) and index |
| ISBN: | 0824867467 |