Religion and Biography in China and Tibet
By Benjamin Penny
Published December 20th 2001 by Routledge – 288 pages
Description
The Chinese and Tibetan traditions value biography as a primary historiographical and literary genre. This volume analyses biographies as texts, taking seriously the literary turn in historical and religious studies and applying some of its insights to an understudied but central corpus of material in Chinese and Tibetan religion.
Name: Religion and Biography in China and Tibet (Hardback) – Routledge
Description: By Benjamin Penny. The Chinese and Tibetan traditions value biography as a primary historiographical and literary genre. This volume analyses biographies as texts, taking seriously the literary turn in historical and religious studies and applying some of its insights to...
Categories: Chinese Studies, South Asian Studies, Asian Literature, Asian Religion, Asian Studies, Central Asian, Russian & Eastern European Studies
