India in the Chinese Imagination - Myth, Religion, and Thought

John Kieschnick is Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Professor of Buddhist Studies at Stanford University and the author of The Impact of Buddhism on Chinese Material Culture and Eminent Monk: Buddhist Ideals in Medieval Chinese Hagiography. Meir Shahar is Associate Professor of Chinese Studies at Tel Aviv University and the author of The Shaolin Monastery: History, Religion, and the Chinese Martial Arts and Crazy Ji: Chinese Religion and Popular Literature.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

John Kieschnick is Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Professor of Buddhist Studies at Stanford University and the author of The Impact of Buddhism on Chinese Material Culture and Eminent Monk: Buddhist Ideals in Medieval Chinese Hagiography. Meir Shahar is Associate Professor of Chinese Studies at Tel Aviv University and the author of The Shaolin Monastery: History, Religion, and the Chinese Martial Arts and Crazy Ji: Chinese Religion and Popular Literature.

Zusammenfassung

In this collection of original essays, leading Asian studies scholars take a new look at the way the Chinese conceived of India in their literature, art, and religious thought in the premodern era.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: John (EDT)/ Shahar Kieschnick, John Shahar Kieschnick
• Mitarbeit: John Kieschnick (Herausgeber), Meir Shahar (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: University of pennsylvania pr
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 23.01.2014
• EAN: 9780812245608
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-4560-8
• Seiten: 320
• Serien: Encounters with Asia; Encounters with Asia
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Regional- und Ländergeschichte; Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges