Religion and Biography in China and Tibet
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon
Published: December 20, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780700711772
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Taoism; Tibetan Buddhism; History: World; General; History; Biography / Autobiography; Chinese; Tibetan; China; Tibet; Religious biography; Ethnic Studies - General; Social Science / Ethnic Studies; Historiography
First sentence: Some time during the second half of the second century CE, a man called Jiao Xian was born in northern China near modern-day Sanmenxia.