Escape from Blood Pond Hell
Beata Grant
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Description for Escape from Blood Pond Hell
Hardback. Provides detailed and powerful descriptions of popular religious beliefs and practices in late imperial China Translator(s): Grant, Beata; Idema, Wilt L. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5830 x 3895. Weight in Grams: 590.
These translations of The Precious Scroll of the Three Lives of Mulian and Woman Huang Recites the Diamond Sutra are late-nineteenth-century examples of baojuan (literally, "precious scrolls"), a Chinese folk genre featuring alternating verse and prose that was used by monks to illustrate religious precepts for lay listeners. They represent only two of numerous versions, composed in a variety of genres, of these legends, which were once popular all over China. While the seeds of the Mulian legend, in which a man rescues his mother from hell, can be found in Indian Buddhist texts, the story of Woman Huang, who ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
Seattle, United States
ISBN
9780295991191
SKU
V9780295991191
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99-2
About Beata Grant
Beata Grant is professor of Chinese language and literature at Washington University, and author of Eminent Nuns: Woman Chan Masters of Seventeenth-Century China and coauthor of The Red Brush: Writing Women of Imperial China. Wilt L. Idema is professor of Chinese literature at Harvard University. His recent publications include Meng Jiangnü Brings Down the Great Wall: Ten Versions of a ... Read more
Reviews for Escape from Blood Pond Hell
"The translation is very accessible, with notes and a glossary, and is suitable as a text for courses on Chinese religion and popular literature."
Chun-Fang Yu
The Journal of Asian Studies
"The literary merits of both precious scrolls are recognizable in the high scholarly translations. . . . One can recommend Grant and Idema's book to students ... Read more
Chun-Fang Yu
The Journal of Asian Studies
"The literary merits of both precious scrolls are recognizable in the high scholarly translations. . . . One can recommend Grant and Idema's book to students ... Read more