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- Title
Why Has the Rhinoceros Come from the West? An Excursus into the Religious, Literary, and Environmental History of the Tang Dynasty.
- Authors
Heller, Natasha
- Abstract
The article presents an examination into the cultural and literary treatment of the rhinoceros in China during the era of the Tang dynasty. Subjects addressed include the religious symbolism attributed to the rhinoceros and its horn within 8th-century Chinese Buddhism, the cultural association of the rhinoceros as exotic rather than local, and references to the "chicken-scaring rhinoceros" by the scholar Dongshan Liangjie.
- Subjects
CHINA; RHINOCEROSES; ANIMALS in religions; DONGSHAN Liangjie; CHINESE Buddhism -- History -- 581-960; CHINESE literature, Tang dynasty, 618-907; TANG dynasty, China, 618-907; BUDDHISM
- Publication
Journal of the American Oriental Society, 2011, Vol 131, Issue 3, p353
- ISSN
0003-0279
- Publication type
Article