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Taoism and Chinese Religion

The Ghost Festival in Medieval China

by Stephen F. Teiser

A history of the Ghost Festival of the seventh lunar month, from the legend of Mulian rescuing his mother to its place in Buddhist, Taoist and family religion. Teiser shows how the festival united monastic and lay concerns.

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