Sunday, September 30, 2012

Philosophy and Religion in Early Medieval China 中古早期中國的哲學與宗教

Editors: 
Alan K. L. Chan, Yuet-Keung Lo

Publisher: 

SUNY Press

Publication Year: 

2010

Abstract: 


An exploration of Chinese thought during a time of monumental change, the period after the fall of the Han dynasty.


Exploring a time of profound change, this book details the intellectual ferment after the fall of the Han dynasty. Questions about “heaven” and the affairs of the world that had seemed resolved by Han Confucianism resurfaced and demanded reconsideration. New currents in philosophy, religion, and intellectual life emerged to leave an indelible mark on the subsequent development of Chinese thought and culture. This period saw the rise of xuanxue (“dark learning” or “learning of the mysterious Dao”), the establishment of religious Daoism, and the rise of Buddhism. In examining the key ideas of xuanxue and focusing on its main proponents, the contributors to this volume call into question the often-presumed monolithic identity of this broad philosophical front. The volume also highlights the richness and complexity of religion in China during this period, examining the relationship between the Way of the Celestial Master and local, popular religious beliefs and practices, and discussing the relationship between religious Daoism and Buddhism.


Table of Contents: 

Introduction

Alan K. L. Chan

1. Sage Nature and the Logic of Namelessness: Reconstructing He Yan’s Explication of Dao

Alan K. L. Chan

2. Tracing the Dao: Wang Bi’s Theory of Names

Jude Soo Meng Chua

3. Hexagrams and Politics: Wang Bi’s Political Philosophy in the Zhouyi zhu

Tze Ki Hon

4. Li in Wang Bi and Guo Xiang: Coherence in the Dark

Brook Ziporyn

5. The Sage without Emotion: Music, Mind, and Politics in Xi Kang

Ulrike Middendorf

6. The Ideas of Illness, Healing, and Morality in Early Heavenly Master Daoism

Chi Tim Lai

7. Imagining Community: Family Values and Morality in the Lingbao Scriptures

Stephen R. Bokenkamp

8. What is Geyi, After All?

Victor H. Mair

9. The Buddharaja Image of Emperor Wu of Liang

Kathy Cheng Mei Ku

10. Social and Cultural Dimensions of Reclusion in Early Medieval China

Alan Berkowitz

11. Destiny and Retribution in Early Medieval China

Yuet Keung Lo

Contributors

Index

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