Abstinence halls (zhaitang 齋堂) in lay households in early medieval China

Most of what we know of religion in early medieval China concerns religious virtuosi, the spiritual and intellectual elite. But often, in texts focused on them, we glimpse the activities of some of the surrounding laypersons whose responses to virtuosi are in many cases the reason we have the texts...

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Main Author: Campany, Robert Ford (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 2015
In: Studies in Chinese Religions
Year: 2015, Volume: 1, Issue: 4, Pages: 323-343
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B China / Buddhism / Layman / Abstinence / Vegetarian cooking / Ceremony / Rooms / Miracle story / Sutra / Chinese language / History 300-500
RelBib Classification:AG Religious life; material religion
BL Buddhism
KBM Asia
TD Late Antiquity
Further subjects:B Buddhist ritual
B poṣadha
B Piṇḍola
B miracle tales
B zhai 齋
B lay Buddhist piety
B Chinese Buddhism
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