India in the Chinese imagination : myth, religion, and thought / edited by John Kieschnick and Meir Shahar.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Kieschnick, John, 1964-, Shahar, Meir, 1959-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2014.
Edition:	1st ed.
Series:	Encounters with Asia.
Subjects:	China > Civilization > Indic influences. China > Relations > India. India > Relations > China.

Table of Contents:

Transformation as imagination in medieval popular Buddhist literature / Victor H. Mair
Indian mythology and the Chinese imagination : Nezha, Nalakūbara, and Kṛṣṇa / Meir Shahar
Indic influences on Chinese mythology : King Yama and his acolytes as gods of destiny / Bernard Faure
Indian myth transformed in a Chinese apocryphal text : two stories on the Buddha's hidden organ / Nobuyoshi Yamabe
From bodily relic to dharma relic stūpa : Chinese materialization of the Aśoka legend in the Wuyue period / Shi Zhiru
"Ancestral transmission" in Chinese Buddhist monasteries : the example of the Shaolin Temple / Ye Derong
The hagiography of Bodhidharma : reconstructing the point of origin of Chinese Chan Buddhism / John R. McRae
Is nirvāṇa the same as insentience? Chinese struggles with an Indian Buddhist ideal / Robert H. Sharf
Karma and the bonds of kinship in medieval Daoism : reconciling the irreconcilable / Christine Mollier
This foreign religion of ours : Lingbao views of Buddhist translation / Stephen R. Bokenkamp.

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