Illustrations Acknowledgments Conventions 1. Introduction Text and Context On Studying Mountains Crashing Continents and Salty Seas Source of Life, Abode of Gods An Extraordinary Place Flora and Fauna A Great Globe of Light 2. Land of Shu The Road to Shu Is Hard Tang and Song Visions 3. A Journey of Ten Thousand Miles Brocade City The Journey Begins 4. Within Sight of Mount Emei Administration and Immigration Way of the Celestial Master Adepts and Abbeys Sakyamuni's Teachings Come to Sichuan A Colossal Buddha 5. The Ascent On to Emei Town Patrons in the Capital, Supporters in the Provinces The Ascent 6. The Summit The Immortal Sage Appears 7. How and Why Did Mount Emei Become a "Famous Buddhist Mountain"? Background and Beginnings Founding Myth Scriptural Authentication Pilgrims, Diaries, and Gazetteers Four Great Famous Mountains The Big Picture 8. The Ming, Qing, Republican, and Modern Eras A Bloody Interlude Florescence in the Ming The Qing (1644--1911) and Republican (1912-- ) Era to 1949 Recent Developments The Tourist Era Emerges Closing Thoughts Abbreviations Notes Selected Bibliography Glossary-Index
James M. Hargett is Professor of Chinese at the University at Albany, State University of New York.
"James M. Hargett's work adds rich layers to our understanding of one of China's most important sacred sites." - Journal of Asian Studies "I am impressed by the extensive use, contextualization, and painstaking translation of primary materials as a means of rendering a multilayered, intimate, insider perspective on Emei. The intellectual contribution of this work is that it makes clear as no other study has the significant role Emei and, by extension, mountains in general have played in Chinese culture." - William Powell, University of California at Santa Barbara
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