Making Transcendents: Ascetics and Social Memory in Early Medieval China 9780824863494

Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Bringing Transcendents Down to Earth
Chapter 2. The Transcendent’s Cultural Repertoire
Chapter 3. Deeper Repertoire Analysis: “Avoiding Grains”
Chapter 4. Secret Arts, Manifest Wonders
Chapter 5. Verbal Self-Presentation and Audience Response
Chapter 6. Adepts and Their Communities
Chapter 7. Adepts, Their Families, and the Imperium
Chapter 8. Hagiographic Persuasions
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

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