Legends and Cults in Ancient China
Title | Legends and Cults in Ancient China PDF eBook |
Author | Bernhard Karlgren |
Publisher | |
Pages | 186 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Cults |
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Legends and Cults in Ancient China
Title | Legends and Cults in Ancient China PDF eBook |
Author | Bernard Karlgren |
Publisher | |
Pages | 167 |
Release | 1985-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780879914783 |
Demystifying the gods, goddesses, and mythology of Ancient Chinese society.
Title | Demystifying the gods, goddesses, and mythology of Ancient Chinese society. PDF eBook |
Author | Henry Romano |
Publisher | DTTV PUBLICATIONS |
Pages | 91 |
Release | 2021-03-13 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN |
We have in China the universal worship of ancestors, which constitutes (or did until A.D. 1912) the State religion, usually known as Confucianism, and in addition we have the gods of the specific religions (which also originally took their rise in ancestor-worship), namely, Buddhism and Taoism. (Other religions, though tolerated, are not recognized as Chinese religions.) It is with a brief account of this great hierarchy and its mythology that we will now concern ourselves. Besides the ordinary ancestor-worship (as distinct from the State worship) the people took to Buddhism and Taoism, which became the popular religions, and the literati also honoured the gods of these two sects. Buddhist deities gradually became installed in Taoist temples, and the Taoist immortals were given seats beside the Buddhas in their sanctuaries. Every one patronized the god who seemed to him the most popular and the most lucrative. There even came to be united in the same temple and worshipped at the same altar the three religious founders or figure-heads, Confucius, Buddha, and Lao Tzŭ. The three religions were even regarded as forming one whole, or at least, though different, as having one and the same object: san êrh i yeh, or han san wei i, “the three are one,” or “the three unite to form one” (a quotation from the phrase T’ai chi han san wei i of Fang Yü-lu: “When they reach the extreme the three are seen to be one”). In the popular pictorial representations of the pantheon this impartiality is clearly shown.
Gods & Goddesses of Ancient China
Title | Gods & Goddesses of Ancient China PDF eBook |
Author | Trenton Campbell |
Publisher | Encyclopaedia Britannica |
Pages | 161 |
Release | 2014-07-15 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1622753941 |
This authoritative volume examines the two main faiths, Confucianism and Daoism, that developed before China had meaningful contact with the rest of the world. Aspects of Buddhism later joined features of these faiths to form elements of Chinese ideology and, with the beliefs in immortals and the worship of ancestors, they led to a popular religion. The narrative describes the gods and goddesses that dominated China's mythology and folk culture, roughly from the 3rd millennium to 221 BCE, including the Baxian (Eight Immortals), Chang'e (moon goddess), Guandi (god of war), the Men Shen (door spirits), and Pan Gu (first man).
Handbook of Chinese Mythology
Title | Handbook of Chinese Mythology PDF eBook |
Author | Lihui Yang |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 309 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0195332636 |
Compiled from ancient and scattered texts and based on groundbreaking new research, Handbook of Chinese Mythology is the most comprehensive English-language work on the subject ever written from an exclusively Chinese perspective. This work focuses on the Han Chinese people but ranges across the full spectrum of ancient and modern China, showing how key myths endured and evolved over time. A quick reference section covers all major deities, spirits, and demigods, as well as important places, mythical animals and plants, and related items.
Ancient Chinas Myths and Beliefs
Title | Ancient Chinas Myths and Beliefs PDF eBook |
Author | Tony Allan |
Publisher | The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
Pages | 145 |
Release | 2011-12-15 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1448859913 |
Examines the myths and beliefs of ancient China.
Chinese Myths and Legends
Title | Chinese Myths and Legends PDF eBook |
Author | Lianshan Chen |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 153 |
Release | 2011-08-25 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 052118679X |
An illustrated introduction to the stories of deities, heroes and the origins of the universe that underpin traditional Chinese culture.