Chinese religions : beliefs and practices / Jeaneane and Merv Fowler
- Bib ID:
- 4348378
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Fowler, Jeaneane D
- Online Version:
- Table of contents only
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- Description:
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- Brighton ; Portland, Or. : Sussex Academic Press, 2008
- ix, 320 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9781845191726
- 1845191722
- Series:
- Sussex library of religious beliefs and practices.
- Summary:
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"This book brings together the studies of Jeaneane Fowler in Taoism, Chinese popular religion and the broader canvas of Chinese cosmogony, and those of Merv Fowler in Confucianism, Ch'an (Zen) Buddhism and Pure Land Buddhism. Chinese Religions requires no previous knowledge and thereby serves as an introduction to the religions of China, and places it in the wider context of Chinese history and philosophy. The facets of Chinese religions are as broad, multilayered and varied as the geographical vastness of China itself, yet so many Chinese beliefs have found their way into the West - the theory of yin and yang, the I Ching, the Tao Te Ching are good examples."--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- Ancient China : the three dynasties
- The Hsia/Xia dynasty
- The Shang dynasty
- The Chou/Zhou dynasty
- The age of the philosophers
- Rhythms of the universe
- The book of changes : the I Ching/Yijing
- Yin and Yang
- The five agents
- Confucianism
- The Ju/Ru tradition
- Confucius
- The analects
- Teachings
- The Confucian classics
- Confucian development
- Confucianism in formation
- Meng-tzu/Mengzi and Hsün-tzu/Xunzi
- Confucianism in adaptation
- Classical taoism
- What is taoism
- Lao-tzu/Laozi and the Tao te Ching/Daodejing
- Chuang-tzu/Zhuangzi
- Lieh-tzu/Liezi
- Tao
- Creation and reversal
- Te/De
- Wu-wei : non-action
- Tzu-jan/Ziran : naturalness and spontaneity
- Buddhism
- The advent of Buddhism in China
- The Tien-tai/Tiantai (Jap. Tendai) School
- Hua-yen/Huayan
- Devotional Buddhism
- Pure land Buddhism
- Religious Taoism
- Historical development
- Alchemy
- Life beyond earth
- Religious praxis
- Immortals
- Sages
- Neo-Confucianism
- The transforming face of Confucianism
- The place of women in Confucian culture
- The five masters
- The dissemination of Confucianism
- Modern new Confucianism
- Ch'an Buddhism
- Bodhidharma
- Hui-k'o/Huike
- Hui-neng/Huineng
- The Zen movement after Hui-Neng
- The five houses
- Kuei-yang/Guiyang (Jap. Igyo) and the circular figures
- Lin-chi/Linji (Jap. Rinzai) and shouting and beating
- Koan practice
- The master-pupil relationship
- Ts'ao-tung (Jap. Soto) and the formula of the five ranks
- Yun-men/Yunmen (Jap. Ummon) and the "pass of a single word"
- Fa-yen/Fayan (Jap. Hogen) and the inner unity of the six marks of being
- The sung/song period
- Meditation
- Popular religion
- What is popular religion?
- Deities of popular religion
- The calendar
- Festivals
- Popular praxis
- Chinese religions today
- Communist China
- Confucianism
- Taoism
- Buddhism
- Popular religion
- Influences of Chinese religions in the West.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 266-296) and index.
- Subject:
- China -- Religion
- Other authors/contributors:
- Fowler, Merv
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
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