The scripture on the ten kings and the making of purgatory in medieval Chinese Buddhism / Stephen F. Teiser.
Language: engchi Original language: Chinese Series: Studies in East Asian Buddhism ; no. 9.Publication details: Honolulu, HI : University of Hawaii Press, c1994.Description: xxiii, 340 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:- 0824815874
- 9780824815875
- Shih wang ching. English.
- Buddhist eschatology
- Shi wang jing -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Hell -- Buddhism
- Buddhism -- China -- Doctrines
- Infierno -- Budismo
- Buda y budismo -- China -- Doctrinas
- Boeddhisme
- Vagevuur
- Shiwangjing -- Critique, interprétation, etc
- Eschatologie -- Bouddhisme
- Enfer -- Bouddhisme
- Bouddhisme -- Chine -- Doctrines
- 294.3/423 20
- BQ4485 .T45 1994
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The Anton Library of Chinese Studies General Stacks | BQ4485 .T45 1994 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | Glossary and bibliography in English and Chinese. | TBC00001247 |
Glossary and bibliography in English and Chinese.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
App. 10. Manuscript Copies of The Scripture on the Ten Kings -- App. 11. A Chronology of the Life of Chai Feng-ta -- App. 12. Texts Copied by a Man in His Eighties -- App. 13. Texts and Inscriptions Mentioning Tao-chen -- App. 14. The Bodhisattvas in The Scripture on the Ten Kings.
Between the seventh and ninth centuries, the Chinese mind became preoccupied with a concept of the afterlife that persists into modern times. To be reborn, the deceased must successfully negotiate passage through ten courts of law, each ruled by a magistrate or king. The pains of transition from death to rebirth can be alleviated by the intercession of the living with contributions to the Buddhist church and bribes of spirit money.
The cosmology, morality, and rituals of the ten kings are described for the first time in surviving sources in an illustrated text, The Scripture on the Ten Kings, which is here translated for the first time.
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