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Delgado Creamer, Margarita Angelica.

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The funerary Buddha: Material culture and religious change in "the introduction of Buddhism to China".

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The funerary Buddha: Material culture and religious change in "the introduction of Buddhism to China"./
Author:	Delgado Creamer, Margarita Angelica.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2016,
Description:	251 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-04(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International78-04A(E).
Subject:	Religion. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10183703
ISBN:	9781369318272

The funerary Buddha: Material culture and religious change in "the introduction of Buddhism to China".
Delgado Creamer, Margarita Angelica.

The funerary Buddha: Material culture and religious change in "the introduction of Buddhism to China". - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2016 - 251 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-04(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Pittsburgh, 2016.

How could Buddhism gain initial acceptance in China? This question has long perplexed scholars of Chinese religions mainly on account of (1) the alleged deep ethnocentrism of Chinese civilization---that should have prevented the acceptance of a "barbarian" religion and god---and (2) the dearth of reliable relevant information for the period (first through fourth centuries CE). On the basis of the fragmentary textual sources available, the traditional narrative resolved the first problem by arguing that the initial misunderstanding or assimilation of Buddhism in terms of Daoism was pivotal in the initial acceptance of the foreign religion. The second problem has been partially ameliorated by the archaeological discovery in the last decades of dozens of objects bearing recognizably Buddhist motifs that have been dated to this period. However, previous studies on this archaeological record have generally seen them as further confirmation of the tenet of the initial misunderstanding of Buddhism as Daoism.

ISBN: 9781369318272Subjects--Topical Terms:

516493
Religion.

The funerary Buddha: Material culture and religious change in "the introduction of Buddhism to China".
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