Making Transcendents: Ascetics and Social Memory in Early Medieval China by Robert Ford Campany

Making Transcendents: Ascetics and Social Memory in Early Medieval China

Robert Ford Campany

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nonfiction history philosophy religion
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Honorable Mention, Joseph Levenson Prize (pre-1900 category), Association for Asian Studies By the middle of the third century B.C.E. in China there were individuals who sought to become transcendents (xian)--deathless, godlike beings endowed with...

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