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

The Scripture on the Ten Kings and the Making of Purgatory in Medieval Chinese Buddhism
作者:Stephen F. Teiser
出版社:University of Hawaii Press
出版年:2003-04
ISBN:9780824827762
行业:其它
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内容简介

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.

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作者简介

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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受人尊重的北京大学教授白化文,他不仅为我去中国西部的研究机构写了介绍信,还为我起了一个富含中国古典文史意味的中文名字:太史文。

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