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Making Transcendents
Ascetics and Social Memory in Early Medieval China
- First published2009
- TraditionTaoism & Chinese Religion
- Shelf119 books
A study of how the Chinese ideal of the transcendent, or immortal, was created and sustained through stories, practices and social relationships in the early medieval period. Campany treats hagiography as evidence of a living culture rather than mere legend.
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