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Religion and biography in China and Tibet / edited by Benjamin Penny.

Contributor(s): Penny, Benjamin
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Richmond, Surrey [England] : Curzon, 2002Description: ix, 273 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0700711775Subject(s): Religious biography -- China | Religious biography -- China -- Tibet Autonomous RegionDDC classification: 200/.951 LOC classification: BL72 | .R43 2002Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (255-268) and index.
Contents:
Jiao Xian's three lives / Benjamin Penny -- The virtue of conformity: the religious re-writing of political biography / Barbara Hendrischke -- Everyday miracles / A.J. Prince -- Representing Wǒnch'ŭk: meditations on medieval East Asian Buddhist biographies / John Jorgensen -- The mirror of life: the structure of a 16th century Tibetan hagiography / David Templeman -- Peng Shaosheng or Peng Jiqing? Biographies of a Confucian Buddhist / Colin Jeffcott -- The epic and nationalism in Tibet / Geoffrey Samuel -- Biography by instalment: the Tibetan periodicals Sheja and Trunggö Böjong on the lives of reincarnate Lamas / Kevin Garratt -- The factor of fate in religious biography / Scott Davis.

Includes bibliographical references (255-268) and index.

Jiao Xian's three lives / Benjamin Penny -- The virtue of conformity: the religious re-writing of political biography / Barbara Hendrischke -- Everyday miracles / A.J. Prince -- Representing Wǒnch'ŭk: meditations on medieval East Asian Buddhist biographies / John Jorgensen -- The mirror of life: the structure of a 16th century Tibetan hagiography / David Templeman -- Peng Shaosheng or Peng Jiqing? Biographies of a Confucian Buddhist / Colin Jeffcott -- The epic and nationalism in Tibet / Geoffrey Samuel -- Biography by instalment: the Tibetan periodicals Sheja and Trunggö Böjong on the lives of reincarnate Lamas / Kevin Garratt -- The factor of fate in religious biography / Scott Davis.

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