Ancestors and Anxiety

Ancestors and Anxiety

Daoism and the Birth of Rebirth in China

by Stephen R. Bokenkamp

220 pages· 2007· ISBN 9780520249486
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A work on Chinese concepts of the afterlife. It explores how Chinese authors, including Daoists and non-Buddhists, received and deployed ideas about rebirth from the third to the sixth centuries CE. In tracing the antecedents of these scriptures, it presents non-Buddhist accounts that provide detail on the realms of the dead.

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