400 pp. May 1993
cloth, ISBN 978-0-8248-1512-7, $38.00
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Asia
China
religion
philosophy
history
Buddhism
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Religion and Society in T'ang and Sung China
ed. by Patricia Buckley Ebrey; Peter N. Gregory
"A marvelous collection of original essays identifying some of the more significant religious changes that occurred from the late Tang period through the Song." --China Review International, Fall 1994 "Very highly recommended" --Sacred Mountain Press, Quarterly Review, March 2004
The T'ang (618-907) and Sung (960-1279) dynasties were times of great change in China. The economy flourished, the population doubled, printing led to a great increase in the availability of books, Buddhism became a fully sinicized religion penetrating deeply into ordinary life. This volume represents a collaborative effort of nine scholars of Chinese religion, history, and thought to begin addressing the question of how changes in the religions of the Chinese people were implicated in the momentous social and cultural changes of this period.
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