Robert Ford Campany is professor of Asian studies and religions at Vanderbilt University.
In early medieval China hundreds of Buddhist miracle texts were circulated, inaugurating a trend that would continue for centuries. Each tale recounted extraordinary events involving Chinese persons and places—events seen as verifying claims made in Buddhist scriptures, demonstrating the reality of karmic retribution, or confirming the efficacy of Buddhist devotional practices. Robert Ford Campany, one of North America’s preeminent scholars of Chinese religion, presents in this volume the first complete, annotated translation, with in-depth commentary, of the largest extant collection of miracle tales from the early medieval period, Wang Yan’s Records of Signs from the Unseen Realm, compiled around 490 C.E.
In addition to the translation, Campany provides a substantial study of the text and its author in their historical and religious settings. He shows how these lively tales helped integrate Buddhism into Chinese society at the same time that they served as platforms for religious contestation and persuasion. Campany offers a nuanced, clear methodological discussion of how such narratives, being products of social memory, may be read as valuable evidence for the history of religion and culture.
Readers interested in Buddhism; historians of Chinese religions, culture, society, and literature; scholars of comparative religion: All will find Signs from the Unseen Realm a stimulating and rich contribution to scholarship.
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好像享有盛誉吧,我觉得他说的最重要的几点小南一郎都说了,考证部分也没有超过中国学者。什么是佛教这种问题实在提不起兴趣。
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评分好像享有盛誉吧,我觉得他说的最重要的几点小南一郎都说了,考证部分也没有超过中国学者。什么是佛教这种问题实在提不起兴趣。
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评分更大的启发倒是在《冥祥记》以外的。作者成功地让我对所有的text保持警惕,history或biography显然不足以反映宗教史的全貌,志怪或miracle tales也需要回到当时的context去理解。另外,一方面作者编选故事是有目的的,另一方面在田晓菲所言的manuscript culture中,故事的读者也在改编故事。
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