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10 produkter
Kings of Oxen and Horses
Draft Animals, Buddhism, and Chinese Rural Religion
Av Meir Shahar
Inbunden, 2025
1195 kr
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For centuries in China, people beseeched deities to protect the draft animals on which they relied. Across social classes—from peasants plowing the fields to merchants transporting goods through soldiers riding into battle—animals were essential to daily life and so took on a central place in the …
Kings of Oxen and Horses
Draft Animals, Buddhism, and Chinese Rural Religion
Av Meir Shahar
Häftad, 2025
304 kr
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For centuries in China, people beseeched deities to protect the draft animals on which they relied. Across social classes—from peasants plowing the fields to merchants transporting goods through soldiers riding into battle—animals were essential to daily life and so took on a central place in the …
India in the Chinese Imagination
Myth, Religion, and Thought
Av John Kieschnick, Meir Shahar
E-bok, 2013
1058 kr
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India and China dominate the Asian continent but are separated by formidable geographic barriers and language differences. For many centuries, most of the information that passed between the two lands came through Silk Route intermediaries in lieu of first-person encounters-leaving considerable …
India in the Chinese Imagination
Myth, Religion, and Thought
Av John Kieschnick, Meir Shahar
Inbunden, 2014
882 kr
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India and China dominate the Asian continent but are separated by formidable geographic barriers and language differences. For many centuries, most of the information that passed between the two lands came through Silk Route intermediaries in lieu of first-person encounters-leaving considerable …
Unruly Gods
Divinity and Society in China
Av Meir Shahar, Robert P. Weller
Inbunden, 1996
385 kr
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Shaolin Monastery
History, Religion, and the Chinese Martial Arts
Av Meir Shahar
Häftad, 2008
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
298 kr
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The Shaolin Monastery charts, for the first time in any language, the history of the Shaolin Temple and the evolution of its world-renowned martial arts. In this meticulously researched and eminently readable study, Meir Shahar considers the economic, political, and religious factors that led …
Oedipal God
The Chinese Nezha and His Indian Origins
Av Meir Shahar
Häftad, 2015
596 kr
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Oedipal Godoffers the most comprehensive account in any language of the prodigal deity Nezha. Celebrated for over a millennium, Nezha is among the most formidable and enigmatic of all Chinese gods. In this theoretically informed study Meir Shahar recounts Nezha's riveting tale—which culminates in …
Animals and Human Society in Asia
Historical, Cultural and Ethical Perspectives
Av Rotem Kowner, Guy Bar-Oz m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
1414 kr
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This edited collection offers a comprehensive overview of the different aspects of human-animal interactions in Asia throughout history. With twelve thematically-arranged chapters, this book examines the diverse roles that beasts, livestock, and fish — real and metaphorical– have played in Asian …
Animals and Human Society in Asia
Historical, Cultural and Ethical Perspectives
Av Gideon Shelach-Lavi, Meir Shahar m. fl.
E-bok, 2019
1785 kr
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This edited collection offers a comprehensive overview of the different aspects of human-animal interactions in Asia throughout history. With twelve thematically-arranged chapters, this book examines the diverse roles that beasts, livestock, and fish — real and metaphorical– have played in Asian …
Animals and Human Society in Asia
Historical, Cultural and Ethical Perspectives
Av Rotem Kowner, Guy Bar-Oz m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
1414 kr
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This edited collection offers a comprehensive overview of the different aspects of human-animal interactions in Asia throughout history. With twelve thematically-arranged chapters, this book examines the diverse roles that beasts, livestock, and fish — real and metaphorical– have played in Asian …
