Chinese religion : an anthology of sources / edited by Deborah Sommer.
Sommer, Deborah, 1956-
1995
BL1802 .C5477 1995 (Mapit)
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Title Chinese religion : an anthology of sources / edited by Deborah Sommer.
ISBN 0195088948 (acid-free paper)
9780195088946 (acid-free paper)
0195088956 (pbk. ; acid-free paper)
9780195088953 (pbk. ; acid-free paper)
Imprint New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.
Language English
Description xxiii, 375 pages ; 25 cm
Call Number BL1802 .C5477 1995
Dewey Decimal Classification 299/.51
Summary For centuries, westerners have referred to China's numerous traditions of spiritual expression as "religious"--A word born of western thought that cannot completely characterize the passionate writing that fills the pages of this pathbreaking anthology. The first of its kind in well over thirty years, this text offers the student of Chinese ritual and cosmology the broadest range of primary sources from antiquity to the modern era. Readings are arranged chronologically and cover such concepts as Taoism, Confucianism, Buddhism, and even communism. A large number of the selections concern the role of the female in Chinese religion, and are either by or about women. Through invocations, poetry, drama, philosophical texts, religious treatises, and modern fiction, students hear the voices of numerous Chinese masters expounding on the movements and traditions that inspired them: the mysterious Tao-te ching of Lao Tzu, cloaked in the mists of deepest antiquity; the Analects of stately, reverent Confucius; "Nailing a Stick into Empty Space," from The Recorded Conversations of Ch'an Master I-hsuan, and many others, including the work of Mencius, Pan Chao, Han Shan, Chang Tsai, Wang Yang-ming, Lu Hsun, and Mao Tse-tung. Fully one third of the translations are new, and each reading is preceded by an introduction that explains its importance and salient features. Complete with a helpful chronology of dynasties and list of possible video sources, this remarkable volume collects under one cover the most significant and influential works of China's dynamic spiritual tradition, making a fundamental contribution to courses in Chinese religion, literature, and history.
Note Translated from Chinese.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-367).
Added Author Sommer, Deborah, 1956-
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The Book of changes
The Book of history
Inscriptions from ritual bronzes
The Book of odes
The Tso chuan
The Rites of Chou
The Book of rites
The Analects of Confucius
Mo Tzu
Mencius
Hsün Tzu
The Tao-te ching of Lao Tzu
Chuang Tzu
The Songs of the South
Wang Fu's Discourses of a recluse
Pan Chao's perfected woman
The unattainable goddess
The Buddhist pure land
The Lotus sutra
Emptiness is form
The holy teaching of Vimalakīrti
Meditations on the body
Alchemical recipes for immortality
The mind-to-mind transmission of the Dharma
Nailing a stick into empty space : Ch'an Master I-Hsüan
The poetry of cold mountain
The writings of Han Yü
In search of a woman's spirit : the poetry of Po Chü-i
The great ultimate of Chou Tun-i
All people are brothers and sisters : Chang Tsai's Western inscription
The writings of Chu Hsi
Chi'en Ch'un's Learning of the way
The way of the Taoist tradition of perfect truth
A woman adept attains the way
Mortal love and divine retribution in Yüan drama
The writings of Wang Yang-ming
Poetry of the spirit
Monkey's journey to the West
Tales of the supernatural
Confessions of a ghost
The story of the stone
Lu Hsün's critique of tradition
The hypocrisy of modern Confucianism
Mao Tse-tung overthrows religious authority
The cult of Mao
The revival of the spiritual tradtion : the God of theater
The fall of the goddess
Contemporary Ch'an practice : Ch'an Master Shen-yen's Faith in mind
Buddhism comes to America.

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