The Scripture on the Ten Kings and the Making of Purgatory in Medieval Chinese Buddhism

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The Scripture on the Ten Kings and the Making of Purgatory in Medieval Chinese Buddhism

作者:StephenF.Teiser

出版社:UniversityofHawaiiPress

出版年:2003-4-30

页数:366

定价:USD30.00

装帧:Paperback

ISBN:9780824827762

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Between the seventh and ninth centuries, the Chinese mind became preoccupied with a concept of the afterlife that persists into modern times. To be reborn, the deceased must successfully negotiate passage through ten courts of law, each ruled by a magistrate or king. The pains of transition from death to rebirth can be alleviated by the intercession of the living with contributions to the Buddhist church and bribes of spirit money. The cosmology, morality, and rituals of the ten kings are described for the first time in surviving sources in an illustrated text, The Scripture on the Ten Kings, which is here translated for the first time.

作者简介
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太史文(Stephen F.Teiser),普林斯顿大学宗教学博士,现任普林斯顿大学宗教学系教授、铃木大拙讲座教授,主攻东亚宗教和中国中古时期的民间信仰。著有《中国中世纪的鬼节》(The Ghost Festival in Medieval China,Princeton University Press,1988),在海外汉学界和佛学界享有盛誉。

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太史文的书切入点总是不错的,这本书也是。国内也有译本的,很容易见到。

虽然太史文真的太喜欢说一大堆然后说这些并没有什么软用,但他的观点真是太和我胃口了。

這本書搭配陰陽師看簡直666。。。

The placing of the dead and the bureaucratization of the other world; the ambivalence between fear of the dead and the respect of ancestors; the differentiation of Indian influences and the creation o…

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