Chinese religion : an anthology of sources / edited by Deborah Sommer.

Translated from Chinese.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 361-367).

The Book of changes -- The Book of history -- Inscriptions from ritual bronzes -- The Book of odes -- The Tso chuan -- The Rites of Chou -- The Book of rites -- The Analects of Confucius -- Mo Tzu -- Mencius -- Hsün Tzu -- The Tao-te ching of Lao Tzu -- Chuang Tzu -- The Songs of the South -- Wang Fu's Discourses of a recluse -- Pan Chao's perfected woman -- The unattainable goddess -- The Buddhist pure land -- The Lotus sutra -- Emptiness is form -- The holy teaching of Vimalakīrti -- Meditations on the body -- Alchemical recipes for immortality -- The mind-to-mind transmission of the Dharma -- Nailing a stick into empty space : Ch'an Master I-Hsüan -- The poetry of cold mountain -- The writings of Han Yü -- In search of a woman's spirit : the poetry of Po Chü-i -- The great ultimate of Chou Tun-i -- All people are brothers and sisters : Chang Tsai's Western inscription -- The writings of Chu Hsi -- Chi'en Ch'un's Learning of the way -- The way of the Taoist tradition of perfect truth -- A woman adept attains the way -- Mortal love and divine retribution in Yüan drama -- The writings of Wang Yang-ming -- Poetry of the spirit -- Monkey's journey to the West -- Tales of the supernatural -- Confessions of a ghost -- The story of the stone -- Lu Hsün's critique of tradition -- The hypocrisy of modern Confucianism -- Mao Tse-tung overthrows religious authority -- The cult of Mao -- The revival of the spiritual tradtion : the God of theater -- The fall of the goddess -- Contemporary Ch'an practice : Ch'an Master Shen-yen's Faith in mind -- Buddhism comes to America.