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Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I. Indian Mythology and the Chinese Imagination
5. Chapter 1. Transformation as Imagination in Medieval Popular Buddhist Literature 13
6. Chapter 2. Indian Mythology and the Chinese Imagination: Nezha, Nalakūbara, and Kṛṣṇạ 21
7. Chapter 3. Indic Influences on Chinese Mythology: King Yama and His Acolytes as Gods of Destiny 46
8. Chapter 4. Indian Myth Transformed in a Chinese Apocryphal Text: Two Stories on the Buddha’s Hidden Organ 61
9. Part II. India in Chinese Imaginings of the Past
10. Chapter 5. From Bodily Relic to Dharma Relic Stūpa: Chinese Materialization of the Aśoka Legend in the Wuyue Period 83
11. Chapter 6. “Ancestral Transmission” in Chinese Buddhist Monasteries: The Example of the Shaolin Temple 110
12. Chapter 7. The Hagiography of Bodhidharma: Reconstructing the Point of Origin of Chinese Chan Buddhism 125
13. Part III. Chinese Rethinking of Indian Buddhism
14. Chapter 8. Is Nirvāṇa the Same as Insentience? Chinese Struggles with an Indian Buddhist Ideal 141
15. Chapter 9. Karma and the Bonds of Kinship in Medieval Daoism: Reconciling the Irreconcilable 171
16. Chapter 10. This Foreign Religion of Ours: Lingbao Views of Buddhist Translation 182
17. Glossary 199
18. Notes 217
19. Bibliography 269
20. Contributors 299
21. Index 301