Signs from the Unseen Realm - Buddhist Miracle Tales from Early Medieval China

Informationen zum Autor Robert Ford Campany is Gertrude Conway Vanderbilt Chair in the Humanities and professor of Asian studies and religions at Vanderbilt University. Klappentext In early medieval China hundreds of Buddhist miracle texts were circulated, inaugurating a trend that would continue for centuries. Robert Ford Campany, one of North America's preeminent scholars of Chinese religion, presents in this volume the first complete, annotated translation, with in-depth commentary, of the largest extant collection of miracle tales from the early medieval period, Wang Yan's Records of Signs from the Unseen Realm, compiled around 490 C.E. Zusammenfassung This book will open up a new window into early medieval religion by focusing on a special genre of textsBuddhist miracle tales--little studied in Western academia. The text in question is the Mingxiang ji! written by a 5th century literates.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Ford Campany
• Assisted by: Robert Ford Campany (Translation)
• Publisher: University of hawaii press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2012
• EAN: 9780824836023
• ISBN: 978-0-8248-3602-3
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Classics in East Asian Buddhis; Classics in East Asian Buddhism/Kuroda Institute; Classics in East Asian Buddhis; Kuroda Classics in East Asian
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous