内容简介

India and China dominate the Asian continent but are separated by formidable geographic barriers and language differences. For many centuries, most of the information that passed between the two lands came through Silk Route intermediaries in lieu of first-person encounters—leaving considerable room for invention. From their introduction to Indian culture in the first centuries C.E., Chinese thinkers, writers, artists, and architects imitated India within their own borders, giving Indian images and ideas new forms and adapting them to their own culture. Yet India's impact on China has not been greatly researched or well understood.

India in the Chinese Imagination takes a new look at the ways the Chinese embedded India in diverse artifacts of Chinese religious, cultural, artistic, and material life in the premodern era. Leading Asian studies scholars explore the place of Indian myths and storytelling in Chinese literature, how Chinese authors integrated Indian history into their conception of the political and religious past, and the philosophical relationships between Indian Buddhism, Chinese Buddhism, and Daoism. This multifaceted volume, illustrated with over a dozen works of art, reveals the depth and subtlety of the encounter between India and China, shedding light on what it means to imagine another culture—and why it matters.

作品目录

Introduction
PART I. INDIAN MYTHOLOGY AND THE CHINESE IMAGINATION
Chapter 1. Transformation as Imagination in Medieval Popular Buddhist Literature, Victor Mair
Chapter 2. Indian Mythology and the Chinese Imagination: Nezha, Nalakūbara, and Kṛṣṇa, Meir Shahar
Chapter 3. Indic Influences on Chinese Mythology: King Yama and His Acolytes as Gods of Destiny, Bernard Faure
Chapter 4. Indian Myth Transformed in a Chinese Apocryphal Text: Two Stories on the Buddha’s Hidden Organ, Nobuyoshi Yamabe
PART II. INDIA IN CHINESE IMAGININGS OF THE PAST
Chapter 5. From Bodily Relic to Dharma Relic Stūpa: Chinese Materialization of the Aśoka Legend in the Wuyue Period, Shi Zhiru
Chapter 6. “Ancestral Transmission” in Chinese Buddhist Monasteries: The Example of the Shaolin Temple, Ye Derong
Chapter 7. The Hagiography of Bodhidharma: Reconstructing the Point of Origin of Chinese Chan Buddhism, John McRae
PART III. CHINESE RETHINKING OF INDIAN BUDDHISM
Chapter 8. Is Nirvāṇa the Same as Insentience? Chinese Struggles with an Indian Buddhist Ideal, Robert Sharf
Chapter 9. Karma and the Bonds of Kinship in Medieval Daoism: Reconciling the Irreconcilable, Christine Mollier
Chapter 10. This Foreign Religion of Ours: Lingbao Views of Buddhist Translation, Stephen R. Bokenkamp
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Inex
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作者简介

John Kieschnick is Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Professor of Buddhist Studies at Stanford University and the author of The Impact of Buddhism on Chinese Material Culture and Eminent Monk: Buddhist Ideals in Medieval Chinese Hagiography.

Meir Shahar is Associate Professor of Chinese Studies at Tel Aviv University and the author of The Shaolin Monastery: History, Religion, a...

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