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religion --- Ancient China --- Medieval China --- Taoism --- local religion --- Modern China

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This volume of interdisciplinary essays examines the intersection of religion and literature in medieval China, focusing on the impact of Buddhism and Daoism on a wide range of elite and popular literary texts and religious practices in the third to eleventh centuries CE. Drawing on the work of the interdisciplinary scholar Stephen Bokenkamp, the essays weave together the many cross-currents of religious, intellectual, and literary traditions in medieval China to provide vivid pictures of medieval Chinese religion and culture as it was lived and practiced. The contributors to the volume are all highly regarded experts in the fields of Chinese poetry, Daoism, Buddhism, popular religion, and literature. Their research papers cut across imagined disciplinary boundaries to show that the culture of medieval China can only be understood by close reading of texts from multiple genres, traditions, and approaches.

Buddhism --- Poetry --- Taoism. --- Taoism --- History. --- Religious aspects --- Buddhism. --- Daoism, Buddhism, medieval China, medieval poetry.

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Buddhist art - China - Khara Khoto (Extinct city) - Exhibitions --- Art, Medieval - China - Khara Khoto (Extinct city) - Exhibitions --- Buddhist art --- Art, Medieval --- Art, Buddhist --- Art, Lamaist --- Art --- Buddhism and art

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In late classical and early medieval China, ascetics strove to become transcendents--deathless beings with supernormal powers. Practitioners developed dietetic, alchemical, meditative, gymnastic, sexual, and medicinal disciplines (some of which are still practiced today) to perfect themselves and thus transcend death. Narratives of their achievements circulated widely. Ge Hong (283-343 C.E..) collected and preserved many of their stories in his Traditions of Divine Transcendents, affording us a window onto this extraordinary response to human mortality. Robert Ford Company's groundbreaking and carefully researched text offers the first complete, critical translation and commentary for this important Chinese religious work, at the same time establishing a method for reconstructing lost texts from medieval China. Clear, exacting, and annotated, the translation comprises over a hundred lively, engaging narratives of individuals deemed to have fought death and won. Additionally, To Live as Long as Heaven and Earth systematically introduces the Chinese quest for transcendence, illuminating a poorly understood tradition that was an important source of Daoist religion and a major social, cultural, and religious phenomenon in its own right.

Taoists --- Ge, Hong, --- Taoists - China - Biography --- Ge, Hong, - 284-364. - Shen xian zhuan --- alchemy. --- ancient china. --- archival work. --- ascetics. --- buddhism. --- china. --- chinese history. --- chinese texts. --- classicism. --- daoism. --- discipline. --- divinity. --- eastern philosophy. --- gymnastics. --- immortals. --- lost texts. --- medicine. --- medieval china. --- meditation. --- mortality. --- nonfiction. --- paranormal. --- philosophy. --- religion. --- sexual discipline. --- sexual practices. --- spirituality. --- supernatural being. --- supernatural powers. --- supernatural. --- taoism. --- to live as long as heaven and earth. --- traditions of the divine transcendents. --- transcend death. --- transcendents. --- transfiguration.

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What is algebra? For some, it is an abstract language of x's and y's. For mathematics majors and professional mathematicians, it is a world of axiomatically defined constructs like groups, rings, and fields. Taming the Unknown considers how these two seemingly different types of algebra evolved and how they relate. Victor Katz and Karen Parshall explore the history of algebra, from its roots in the ancient civilizations of Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, China, and India, through its development in the medieval Islamic world and medieval and early modern Europe, to its modern form in the early twentieth century.Defining algebra originally as a collection of techniques for determining unknowns, the authors trace the development of these techniques from geometric beginnings in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia and classical Greece. They show how similar problems were tackled in Alexandrian Greece, in China, and in India, then look at how medieval Islamic scholars shifted to an algorithmic stage, which was further developed by medieval and early modern European mathematicians. With the introduction of a flexible and operative symbolism in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, algebra entered into a dynamic period characterized by the analytic geometry that could evaluate curves represented by equations in two variables, thereby solving problems in the physics of motion. This new symbolism freed mathematicians to study equations of degrees higher than two and three, ultimately leading to the present abstract era.Taming the Unknown follows algebra's remarkable growth through different epochs around the globe.

Algebra --- History. --- Alexandria. --- Ancient China. --- Ancient Greece. --- Apollonius. --- Arabic language. --- Archimedes. --- Arithmetica universalis. --- Arithmetica. --- Athens. --- Book of Numbers and Computation. --- Brahmagupta. --- Brāhma-sphụta-siddhānta. --- Chinese intellectual culture. --- Chinese mathematicians. --- Chinese remainder problem. --- Diophantus. --- Egypt. --- Euclid. --- François Viète. --- Gerbert of Aurillac. --- Greek mathematics. --- Indian mathematicians. --- Islam. --- Islamic learning. --- Islamic mathematics. --- Islamic rule. --- Islamic world. --- Italy. --- Kerala school. --- Latin West. --- Medieval China. --- Mesopotamia. --- Pell equation. --- Pierre de Fermat. --- Renaissance algebra. --- René Descartes. --- Roman Alexandria. --- Roman conquest. --- Suan shu shu. --- Thomas Harriot. --- Western intellectual culture. --- algebra. --- algebraic equations. --- algebraic research. --- algebraic thought. --- algebraists. --- analytic geometry. --- ancient civilization. --- ancient civilizations. --- ancient mathematical records. --- axiomatization. --- classical learning. --- complex numbers. --- cubics. --- curves. --- determinants. --- determinate equations. --- divine inspiration. --- educational reforms. --- equations. --- fields. --- fifth-degree polynomials. --- foreign sciences. --- geometrical algebra. --- group theory. --- group. --- groups. --- higher-order equations. --- indeterminate equations. --- institutionalized mathematics. --- international mathematical community. --- invariants. --- linear equations. --- linear transformations. --- mathematics. --- matrices. --- modern algebra. --- n unknowns. --- new algebraic constructs. --- new algebraic systems. --- numbers. --- operative symbolism. --- papyrus scrolls. --- permutations. --- physical interpretations. --- polynomial equations. --- problem solving. --- problem-solving techniques. --- proportions. --- quartics. --- religious sciences. --- rings. --- simultaneous solutions. --- sixteenth-century Europe. --- solvable equations. --- symbolism. --- vectors. --- western Europe. --- Āryabhạta. --- Āryabhạtīya.