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Subject(s)

• Wang, Yan active 5th century—Ming xiang ji. [Browse]
• Buddhist legends—China [Browse]
• Miracles (Buddhism) [Browse]

Series

Classics in East Asian Buddhism. [More in this series]

Contains

Wang, Yan, active 5th century. Ming xiang ji. English. [Browse]

Summary note

This book contains an annotated translation of the largest existing collection of Buddhist miracle texts from China's early medieval period, Wang Yan's Records of Signs from the Unseen Realm, which were compiled around 490 CE.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-292) and index.

Contents

• Part I Signs from the Unseen Realm and Buddhist Miracle Tales in Early Medieval China 1
• Introduction 1
• Wang Yan and the Making of Mingxiang ji 7
• Miracle Tales and the Communities That Exchanged Them 17
• The Idiom of Buddhism Represented in the Tales 30
• Miracle Tales and the Sinicization of Buddhism 37
• The Narrative Shape of the Miraculous 43
• Religious Themes in the Text 49
• Part II Translation: Signs from the Unseen Realm 63.

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Other title(s)

• Buddhist miracle tales from early medieval China
• Project Muse UPCC books

ISBN

• 9780824836023
• 0824836022

LCCN

^^2011038216

OCLC

742519194

RCP

• H - U
• H - S

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