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《在虎蛇之乡：中国中世纪宗教中的动物生活》
In the Land of Tigers and Snakes
Living with Animals in Medieval Chinese Religions
Huaiyu Chen
Huaiyu Chen is an associate professor in the School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies at Arizona State University. He is the author of The Revival of Buddhist Monasticism in Medieval China (2007) and coeditor of Great Journeys Across the Pamir Mountains: A Festschrift in Honor of Zhang Guangda on His Eighty-fifth Birthday (2018), among other books.
Huaiyu Chen
Columbia University Press
March 2023
MAIN
Animals play crucial roles in Buddhist thought and practice. However, many symbolically or culturally significant animals found in India, where Buddhism originated, do not inhabit China, to which Buddhism spread in the medieval period. In order to adapt Buddhist ideas and imagery to the Chinese context, writers reinterpreted and modified the meanings different creatures possessed. Medieval sources tell stories of monks taming wild tigers, detail rituals for killing snakes, and even address the question of whether a parrot could achieve enlightenment.
Huaiyu Chen examines how Buddhist ideas about animals changed and were changed by medieval Chinese culture. He explores the entangled relations among animals, religions, the state, and local communities, considering both the multivalent meanings associated with animals and the daily experience of living with the natural world. Chen illustrates how Buddhism influenced Chinese knowledge and experience of animals as well as how Chinese state ideology, Daoism, and local cultic practices reshaped Buddhism. He shows how Buddhism, Confucianism, and Daoism developed doctrines, rituals, discourses, and practices to manage power relations between animals and humans.
Drawing on a wide range of sources, including traditional texts, stone inscriptions, manuscripts, and visual culture, this interdisciplinary book bridges history, religious studies, animal studies, and environmental studies. In examining how Buddhist depictions of the natural world and Chinese taxonomies of animals mutually enriched each other, In the Land of Tigers and Snakes offers a new perspective on how Buddhism took root in Chinese society.
REVIEWS
The question of how humans treat, and should treat, non-human animals has become more urgent in the face of biodiversity loss, and we might find some answers by considering how we have lived with animals in other times and places. Huaiyu Chen’s In the Land of Tigers and Snakes. . . provides openings to do so.——The Times Literary Supplement
. . . engaging and rich in detail. In all, this is a much-needed addition to the ever-growing field of Chinese animal studies, demonstrating the applicability and range of the “animal lens” in scholarship.——School of Oriental & African Studies
In the Land of Tigers and Snakes is meticulously researched, richly documented, and well contextualized. Chen shows excellent command of his source materials, and I really learned a tremendous amount from reading this book. A must-read for anyone interested in animals and religion!——Barbara Ambros, author of Bones of Contention: Animals and Religion in Contemporary Japan
An unprecedented survey of some very rich sources, In the Land of Tigers and Snakes is a major contribution to the study of the interactions between the human and animal realms in a pivotal period of Chinese history.——T.H. Barrett, author of Taoism Under the T'ang: Religion and Empire during the Golden Age of Chinese History
In this fascinating and important study, Huaiyu Chen overturns facile beliefs that Buddhism and Daoism have long promoted ecologically beneficent attitudes and practices toward wild animals. Instead, he shows the complex ways religious leaders and laypeople viewed, controlled, killed, and according to legends, tamed and converted wild animals, in processes producing religious hierarchies, involving interreligious competition, and contributing decisively to the spread of agricultural civilizations at the expense of wildlife and wildlands. Highly recommended.——Bron Taylor, Author of Dark Green Religion: Nature Spirituality and the Planetary Future and editor of the Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature
CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Buddhists Categorizing Animals: Medieval Chinese Classification
2. Confucians Civilizing Unruly Beasts: Tigers and Pheasants
3. Buddhists Taming Felines: The Companionship of the Tiger
4. Daoists Transforming Ferocious Tigers: Practical Techniques and Rhetorical Strategies
5. Buddhists Killing Reptiles: Snakes in Religious Competition
6. Buddhists Enlightening Virtuous Birds: The Parrot as a Religious Agent
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
《在虎蛇之乡：中国中世纪宗教中的动物生活》
In the Land of Tigers and Snakes
Living with Animals in Medieval Chinese Religions
Huaiyu Chen
Huaiyu Chen is an associate professor in the School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies at Arizona State University. He is the author of The Revival of Buddhist Monasticism in Medieval China (2007) and coeditor of Great Journeys Across the Pamir Mountains: A Festschrift in Honor of Zhang Guangda on His Eighty-fifth Birthday (2018), among other books.
Huaiyu Chen
Columbia University Press
March 2023
MAIN
Animals play crucial roles in Buddhist thought and practice. However, many symbolically or culturally significant animals found in India, where Buddhism originated, do not inhabit China, to which Buddhism spread in the medieval period. In order to adapt Buddhist ideas and imagery to the Chinese context, writers reinterpreted and modified the meanings different creatures possessed. Medieval sources tell stories of monks taming wild tigers, detail rituals for killing snakes, and even address the question of whether a parrot could achieve enlightenment.
Huaiyu Chen examines how Buddhist ideas about animals changed and were changed by medieval Chinese culture. He explores the entangled relations among animals, religions, the state, and local communities, considering both the multivalent meanings associated with animals and the daily experience of living with the natural world. Chen illustrates how Buddhism influenced Chinese knowledge and experience of animals as well as how Chinese state ideology, Daoism, and local cultic practices reshaped Buddhism. He shows how Buddhism, Confucianism, and Daoism developed doctrines, rituals, discourses, and practices to manage power relations between animals and humans.
Drawing on a wide range of sources, including traditional texts, stone inscriptions, manuscripts, and visual culture, this interdisciplinary book bridges history, religious studies, animal studies, and environmental studies. In examining how Buddhist depictions of the natural world and Chinese taxonomies of animals mutually enriched each other, In the Land of Tigers and Snakes offers a new perspective on how Buddhism took root in Chinese society.
REVIEWS
The question of how humans treat, and should treat, non-human animals has become more urgent in the face of biodiversity loss, and we might find some answers by considering how we have lived with animals in other times and places. Huaiyu Chen’s In the Land of Tigers and Snakes. . . provides openings to do so.——The Times Literary Supplement
. . . engaging and rich in detail. In all, this is a much-needed addition to the ever-growing field of Chinese animal studies, demonstrating the applicability and range of the “animal lens” in scholarship.——School of Oriental & African Studies
In the Land of Tigers and Snakes is meticulously researched, richly documented, and well contextualized. Chen shows excellent command of his source materials, and I really learned a tremendous amount from reading this book. A must-read for anyone interested in animals and religion!——Barbara Ambros, author of Bones of Contention: Animals and Religion in Contemporary Japan
An unprecedented survey of some very rich sources, In the Land of Tigers and Snakes is a major contribution to the study of the interactions between the human and animal realms in a pivotal period of Chinese history.——T.H. Barrett, author of Taoism Under the T'ang: Religion and Empire during the Golden Age of Chinese History
In this fascinating and important study, Huaiyu Chen overturns facile beliefs that Buddhism and Daoism have long promoted ecologically beneficent attitudes and practices toward wild animals. Instead, he shows the complex ways religious leaders and laypeople viewed, controlled, killed, and according to legends, tamed and converted wild animals, in processes producing religious hierarchies, involving interreligious competition, and contributing decisively to the spread of agricultural civilizations at the expense of wildlife and wildlands. Highly recommended.——Bron Taylor, Author of Dark Green Religion: Nature Spirituality and the Planetary Future and editor of the Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature
CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Buddhists Categorizing Animals: Medieval Chinese Classification
2. Confucians Civilizing Unruly Beasts: Tigers and Pheasants
3. Buddhists Taming Felines: The Companionship of the Tiger
4. Daoists Transforming Ferocious Tigers: Practical Techniques and Rhetorical Strategies
5. Buddhists Killing Reptiles: Snakes in Religious Competition
6. Buddhists Enlightening Virtuous Birds: The Parrot as a Religious Agent
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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除了令人印象深刻的越野能力外，第四代吉姆尼还具备超强的“模仿”能力，它可以变成“迷你G”、“迷你卫士”（可以到我的主页查看），甚至是迷你版福特Bronco。
近日，一家名叫Garage-ill的改装商针对第四代吉姆尼推出了Jimny Bron55套件，改装该套件的吉姆尼摇身一变成为了迷你版的福特Bronco，看到成品之后，我相信你也会不禁概叹：为什么福特就没有考虑过生产这个大玩具。
由于吉姆尼本身就拥有方盒子的车身造型及硬朗的车身线条，因此想变身成迷你版福特Bronco也并非难事，主要针对车头进行改动即可。据悉，Jimny Bron55套件大体上包含一个独特且镶嵌“BRON55”标志的中网格栅、一套与福特Bronco相似的前大灯组件以及更狂野且扩展性更强的前保险杠，而标准版的吉姆尼则还可以选装四轮宽体轮眉。
那意味着，不管是标准版的吉姆尼，还是吉姆尼Sierra都是可以兼容该套件的，甚至是五门版吉姆尼也适用。当然了，如果你想获得图示的效果，那还需要悬架升高套件，在轮圈轮胎方面也得下点儿功夫，而更过分的做法就是将车身标识全都更换成福特Bronco的。
稍感可惜的是，Jimny Bron55套件目前只在日本销售，其它地区的吉姆尼车主需要费点功夫才能获得。据改装商Garage-ill介绍，客户可以整套购买Jimny Bron55套件或单独购买套件内的配件，其中中网格栅+前大灯组在日本的售价是1070美元起，而一整套Jimny Bron55套件的价格则需要1644美元。
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看看这个超话能用不，可以往里面丢碎碎念各种啥的！
大家都辛苦啦！！！
回去一定要注意安全☺️
看到很多人跟我说
“你回来啦，终于再次见到你了”
“玩得很开心，打开了新世界！”
“现场氛围真好，第一次尝试看地下偶像，感觉很有意思！”
“……”
真是太好啦！
以后也一起走吧www
-
接下来的演出是10月6日哦（图5）
衣服的风格是：中华风小裙子
还是和Re.Bron一起～
表演的节目是今天的三首歌！
同时也会开启电聊切～（图6）
只要有演出，哪场用都可以哦！
-
谢谢大家的礼物和信，太用心啦呜呜呜！
下次再见！！！
忙碌的两天结束了捏！
看看这个超话能用不，可以往里面丢碎碎念各种啥的！
大家都辛苦啦！！！
回去一定要注意安全☺️
看到很多人跟我说
“你回来啦，终于再次见到你了”
“玩得很开心，打开了新世界！”
“现场氛围真好，第一次尝试看地下偶像，感觉很有意思！”
“……”
真是太好啦！
以后也一起走吧www
-
接下来的演出是10月6日哦（图5）
衣服的风格是：中华风小裙子
还是和Re.Bron一起～
表演的节目是今天的三首歌！
同时也会开启电聊切～（图6）
只要有演出，哪场用都可以哦！
-
谢谢大家的礼物和信，太用心啦呜呜呜！
下次再见！！！
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