"Like Silkworms in Their Cocoons": Silkworm-Human Relations in Middle-Period Chinese Buddhism
This article is about how silkworms spun Buddhism in middle-period China (ca. third-tenth centuries CE). It traces the activities and influences of silkworms in Chinese Buddhist texts, which it treats as products of intrinsic entanglements among human and nonhuman agents. Throughout middle-period Ch...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2025
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| In: |
History of religions
Year: 2025, Volume: 64, Issue: 3, Pages: 133-167 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
China
/ Buddhism
/ Sericulture
/ Human being
/ Animals
/ Material popular culture
/ History 300-1000
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| IxTheo Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion BL Buddhism KCA Monasticism; religious orders TD Late Antiquity TE Middle Ages ZE Economy / Economics |
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Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
