Laughing at the Tao: Debates Among Buddhists and Taoists in Medieval China

by Livia Kohn

Book Overview

In the early centuries after the introduction of Buddhism to China, the new religion had to come to terms with the worldview of the Confucian elite, the inherent Chinese sense of ethnic superiority, and China's indigenous higher religion of Taoism. The Xiaodao lun (Laughing at the Tao) is an important document of the debates among Buddhists and Taoists, debates that contributed to the process of cultural adaptation. Written by the Taoist renegade...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691034834
• ISBN13: 9780691034836
• Release Date: May 1995
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.6"