Ancestral Memory in Early China
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series
ISBN-10
0674056078
ISBN-13
9780674056077
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center
Imprint
Harvard University, Asia Center
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 16th, 2011
Print length
484 Pages
Weight
832 grams
Dimensions
23.70 x 16.40 x 3.40 cms
Product Classification:
Oriental religions
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In this study, the author contends that early Chinese ancestor worship was not merely mechanical and thoughtless. Rather, it was an idea system that aroused serious debates about the nature of postmortem existence, served as the religious backbone to Confucianism, and may even have been the forerunner of Daoist and Buddhist meditation practices.
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