Shahar Kings of Oxen and Horses

Draft Animals, Buddhism, and Chinese Rural Religion
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-0-231-56216-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch

Reihe: The Sheng Yen Series in Chinese Buddhist Studies

Meir Shahar examines the place of draft animals in Chinese and Buddhist religious traditions and, in so doing, sheds new light on human interaction with nonhuman animals more broadly.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shahar, Meir

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Tier- und Umweltschutz
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Buddhismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Iconographic Prelude
Part I: The Horse King
2. The Horse King’s Ancestry
3. The Horse King’s Cult
4. Legends of an Equine God
Part II: The Ox King
5. The Ox King and the Beef Taboo
6. The Human Ox
7. The Divine Ox
8. The Chinese Ox and the Indian Cow
9. The Ox King Festival
10. A Daoist Relation
Epilogue
Appendix A: Bovine-Healing Scriptures Addressed to the Ox King
Appendix B: Bovine-Healing Scriptures Not Addressed to the Ox King
Appendix C: Equine-Healing Scriptures Addressed to the Horse King
Abbreviations
Notes
Works Cited
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Meir Shahar is the Shoul N. Eisenberg Chair for East Asian Affairs at Tel Aviv University. His books include Crazy Ji: Chinese Religion and Popular Literature (1998); The Shaolin Monastery: History, Religion, and the Chinese Martial Arts (2008); and Oedipal God: The Chinese Nezha and His Indian Origins (2015).