Fate and Immortality in Asia A Cross-cultural Perspective - SERIE ORIENTALE ROMA n.s. 41
- Anno: 2024
- Autore/i: Donatella Rossi (ed.)
- Catalogo: Scienze e Lettere
- Argomento: Orientalistica
- Collana: Serie Orientale Roma
- ISBN: 978-88-6687-278-8
- ISSN: 0582-7906
CONTENTS
Foreword by Donatella Rossi
L. Verderame, The Quest for Immortality and the Transience of Life in Ancient Mesopotamia
M. Casari, Iskandar and Al-Khi?r in the Literatures of Islam: Politi¬cal Power, Prophecy and Divination in the Legend of the Bath of Immortality
L. Capezzone, Medicine, Jurisprudence, Divine Inspiration: Mar¬ginal Notes on the Knowledge of the Shiite Imams
M. Clemente, Immortality through Relics in Tibetan Hagiographies: The Case of Lha bTsun Rin Chen rNam rgyal (1473-1557)
F. Lunardo, rJe tshe ’Dzin ma, A dGe lugs pa Long Life Practice. Re¬lationship between Tantric Instructions and Figurative Symbols
C. Simioli, The Multidimensional Nature of the Mercury Procedures as Described in the Ten Million of Quintessential Instructions, The Relics (man ngag bye ba ring bsrel) of Zur mkhar ba mNyam nyid rDo rje
D. Rossi, Today as Yesterday: A Spiritual Advice for the Degenerate Age
F. Pregadio, Destiny and Immortality in Taoism
C.L. Ghidini, Under the Spell of Antiquity: Orikuchi Shinobu and the Water of Eternal Youth
G.A. Testa, The Jingoji Yakushi and the Production of Wooden Images of Bhai?ajyaguru (the Healing Buddha) in Japan during the Late Nara (710-794) and Early Heian (794-1185) Periods
F. Cristaldi, Places of Worship of the Chinese Population in Rome as an Indicator of Territorial Stabilisation
A. Kosic, A.L. Ai, Spirituality and Psychological Stress in Covid Pandemic of Chinese Immigrants in Europe
Contributors
F.to 17x24, pp. 248, Brossura Filo refe, Ill. B/N e a colori