[Buddha-l] speaking about rebirth--again--new book

[Dan Lusthaus]

Joanna,

> Stephen R. Bokenkamp
> Ancestors and Anxiety : Daoism and the Birth of Rebirth in China
> UC Press, 2007.
> http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/10645.php

Steve Bokenkamp is one of the leading American scholars on Daoism. In this
book he tries to show that the idea of rebirth was not simply a Buddhist
import absorbed as such by Chinese culture, but it developed its own
narrative and ritualistic characteristics, drawing equally on pre-Buddhist
native Chinese traditions. It's a facinating, rich read, focusing on a few
germinal texts.

Dan