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Precious Volumes: An Introduction to Chinese Sectarian Scriptures from the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (HARVARD-YENCHING INSTITUTE MONOGRAPH SERIES) - Hardcover

Overmyer, Daniel L.

 
9780674698383: Precious Volumes: An Introduction to Chinese Sectarian Scriptures from the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (HARVARD-YENCHING INSTITUTE MONOGRAPH SERIES)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 067469838X ISBN 13: 9780674698383
Verlag: Harvard University, Asia Center, 1999

Inhaltsangabe

"Precious volumes," or pao-chüan, were produced by popular sects in the Ming and early Qing dynasties. These scriptures were believed to have been divinely revealed to sect leaders and contain teachings and ritual instructions that provide valuable information about a lively and widespread religious tradition outside mainstream Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism. Largely neglected until now, they testify to the imagination and devotion of popular religious leaders. This book, the most detailed and comprehensive study of pao-chüan in any language, studies 34 early examples of this literature in order to understand the origins and development of this textual tradition. Although the work focuses on content and structure, it also treats the social context of these works as well as their transmission and ritual use.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Daniel L. Overmyer is Professor of Chinese Studies at the University of British Columbia and Professor of Religion at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

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Verlag
Harvard University, Asia Center
Erscheinungsdatum
1999
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
067469838X
ISBN 13 
9780674698383
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
444
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