A short history of Chinese "religions." (The word "religion" did not enter the ... 1600–256 BCE) Two practices that extend from these ancient dynasties to the present are ancestral rites, performed in ...
Buddhism also interacted in China with religious Daoism, especially from the 3rd century CE. Religious Daoism, in the form of several competing sects, absorbed many of the local religious temples and ...
This unit surveys the religious traditions of China from sacrifice and ancestor worship as revealed in the oracle bones of ancient China, to Falungong and other developments in contemporary Chinese ...
Landry, Nelson Elliott 2023. Monastics and the Medieval Chinese Buddhist Mythos: A Study of Narrative Elements in Daoxuan’s Ji shenzhou sanbao gantong lu (Collected Record of Miracles Relating to the ...
The Chinese Communist Party is intensifying efforts to control Tibetan Buddhism, particularly with the pending succession of the dalai lama.
Chinese scholars have unveiled the Ramayana's significant presence in their cultural history. Brought to China through ...
Landry, Nelson Elliott 2023. Monastics and the Medieval Chinese Buddhist Mythos: A Study of Narrative Elements in Daoxuan’s Ji shenzhou sanbao gantong lu (Collected Record of Miracles Relating to the ...