Worldly saviors and imperial authority in medieval Chinese Buddhism /
Although scholars have long assumed that early Chinese political authority was rooted in Confucianism, rulership in the medieval period was not bound by a single dominant tradition. To acquire power, emperors deployed objects and figures derived from a range of traditions imbued with religious and p...
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| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, [2021] |
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