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In this study, the author contends that early Chinese ancestor worship was not merely mechanical and thoughtless. Rather, it was an idea system that aroused serious debates about the nature of postmortem existence, served as the religious backbone to Confucianism, and may even have been the forerunner of Daoist and Buddhist meditation practices.

Ancestral Memory in Early China

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    Publisher: Harvard University, Asia Center
    Publication Date: 16/05/2011
    ISBN13: 9780674056077, 978-0674056077
    ISBN10: 0674056078
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    East Asian religions and spiritual beliefs

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    Book Synopsis
    In this study, the author contends that early Chinese ancestor worship was not merely mechanical and thoughtless. Rather, it was an idea system that aroused serious debates about the nature of postmortem existence, served as the religious backbone to Confucianism, and may even have been the forerunner of Daoist and Buddhist meditation practices.

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