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Contents Introduction 1 PARt I. INDIAN Mythology AND thE ChINESE IMAgINAtIoN Chapter 1. transformation as Imagination in Medieval Popular Buddhist literature 13 Victor H. Mair Chapter 2. Indian Mythology and the Chinese Imagination: Nezha, Nalakūbara, and Kṛṣṇa 21 Meir Shahar Chapter 3. Indic Influences on Chinese Mythology: King yama and his Acolytes as gods of Destiny 46 Bernard Faure Chapter 4. Indian Myth transformed in a Chinese Apocryphal text: two Stories on the Buddha’s hidden organ 61 Nobuyoshi Yamabe PARt II. INDIA IN ChINESE IMAgININgS of thE PASt Chapter 5. From Bodily Relic to Dharma Relic Stūpa: Chinese Materialization of the Aśoka Legend in the Wuyue Period 83 Shi Zhiru viii Contents Chapter 6. “Ancestral transmission” in Chinese Buddhist Monasteries: the Example of the Shaolin temple 110 Ye Derong Chapter 7. the hagiography of Bodhidharma: Reconstructing the Point of origin of Chinese Chan Buddhism 125 John R. McRae PARt III. ChINESE REthINKINg of INDIAN BUDDhISM Chapter 8. Is Nirvāṇa the Same as Insentience? Chinese Struggles with an Indian Buddhist Ideal 141 Robert H. Sharf Chapter 9. Karma and the Bonds of Kinship in Medieval Daoism: Reconciling the Irreconcilable 171 Christine Mollier Chapter 10. this foreign Religion of ours: lingbao Views of Buddhist translation 182 Stephen R. Bokenkamp glossary 199 Notes 217 Bibliography 269 list of Contributors 299 Index 301 4.203.235.24] Project MUSE (2024-03-29 02:47 GMT) India in the Chinese Imagination figure 1. liu Songnian’s arhat (luohan), c. 1155–1218. Courtesy the National Palace Museum taiwan, Republic of China. ...