Guan Yu (ePub)
The Religious Afterlife of a Failed Hero
(Sprache: Englisch)
Guan Yu was a minor general in the early third century CE, who supported one of numerous claimants to the throne. He was captured and executed by enemy forces in 219. He eventually became one the most popular and influential deities of imperial China under...
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Guan Yu was a minor general in the early third century CE, who supported one of numerous claimants to the throne. He was captured and executed by enemy forces in 219. He eventually became one the most popular and influential deities of imperial China under the name Lord Guan or Emperor Guan, of the same importance as the Buddhist bodhisattva Guanyin. This is a study of his cult, but also of the tremendous power of oral culture in a world where writing became
increasingly important.
In this study, we follow the rise of the deity through his earliest stage as a hungry ghost, his subsequent adoption by a prominent Buddhist monastery during the Tang (617-907) as its miraculous supporter, and his recruitment by Daoist ritual specialists during the Song dynasty (960-1276) as an exorcist general. He was subsequently known as a rain god, a protector against demons and barbarians, and, eventually, a moral paragon and almost messianic saviour. Throughout his divine life, the
physical prowess of the deity, more specifically Lord Guan's ability to use violent action for doing good, remained an essential dimension of his image. Most research ascribes a decisive role in the rise of his cult to the literary traditions of the Three Kingdoms, best known from the famous novel by this
name. This book argues that the cult arose from oral culture and spread first and foremost as an oral practice.
increasingly important.
In this study, we follow the rise of the deity through his earliest stage as a hungry ghost, his subsequent adoption by a prominent Buddhist monastery during the Tang (617-907) as its miraculous supporter, and his recruitment by Daoist ritual specialists during the Song dynasty (960-1276) as an exorcist general. He was subsequently known as a rain god, a protector against demons and barbarians, and, eventually, a moral paragon and almost messianic saviour. Throughout his divine life, the
physical prowess of the deity, more specifically Lord Guan's ability to use violent action for doing good, remained an essential dimension of his image. Most research ascribes a decisive role in the rise of his cult to the literary traditions of the Three Kingdoms, best known from the famous novel by this
name. This book argues that the cult arose from oral culture and spread first and foremost as an oral practice.
Autoren-Porträt von Barend J. Ter Haar
Barend J. ter Haar studied in Leiden, Shenyang, and Fukuoka. He obtained his doctoral degree in 1990 in Leiden, and worked in Leiden and Heidelberg before coming to Oxford in 2013. Ter Haar has published extensively on new religious groups, lay Buddhism, Triad ritual and mythology, the spread of rumours, religious culture and violence, local religious culture, and ethnicity. He is currently completing a book dealing with the social history of witchcraft fears andpersecution in traditional China.
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- Autor: Barend J. Ter Haar
- 2017, 320 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0192525433
- ISBN-13: 9780192525437
- Erscheinungsdatum: 06.10.2017
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