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Religion and Biography in China and Tibet

Religion and Biography in China and Tibet

by Benjamin Penny
Religion and Biography in China and Tibet
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Religion and Biography in China and Tibet

Religion and Biography in China and Tibet

by Benjamin Penny

Overview

The Chinese and Tibetan traditions value biography as a primary historiographical and literary genre. This volume analyses biographies as texts, taking seriously the literary turn in historical and religious studies and applying some of its insights to an understudied but central corpus of material in Chinese and Tibetan religion.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781136113949
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 09/05/2013
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 288
File size: 3 MB

About the Author

Benjamin Penny

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements, Introduction, 1. Jiao Xian's Three Lives, 2. The Virtue of Conformity, 3. Everyday Miracles, 4. Representing Wonch'Uk, 5. The Mirror of Life, 6. Peng Shaosheng or Peng Jiqing?, 7. The Epic and Nationalism in Tibet, 8. Biography by Instalment, 9. The Factor of Fate in Religious Biography, Contributors, Chinese Character Glossary, Tibetan Glossary, Bibliography, Index
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