E-raamat: Religion and Poetry in Medieval China: The Way and the Words

1. Essays are all by senior, influential, and internationally recognized scholars in the fields of Chinese religion and literature, growing out of research directions established by Stephen Bokenkamp. 2. interdisciplinary studies that take up new questions in the study of Chinese religion and literature, including religious and poetic practice, the production of images, and the circulation of manuscripts. 3. Sheds light on the intersection of Daoism, Buddhism, and literature in the watershed centuries of middle period China. This volume of interdisciplinary essays examines the intersection of religion and literature in medieval China, focusing on the impact of Buddhism and Daoism on a wide range of elite and popular literary texts and religious practices in the 3rd-11th centuries CE. Drawing on the work of the interdisciplinary scholar Stephen Bokenkamp, the essays weave together the many cross-currents of religious, intellectual, and literary traditions in medieval China to provide vivid pictures of medieval Chinese religion and culture as it was lived and practiced. The contributors to the volume are all highly regarded experts in the fields of Chinese poetry, Daoism, Buddhism, popular religion, and literature. Their research papers cut across imagined disciplinary boundaries to show that the culture of medieval China can only be understood by close reading of texts from multiple genres, traditions, and approaches.