幽明錄 by Yiqing Liu

"幽明錄" by Yiqing Liu is a collection of supernatural tales from 5th-century China. These stories explore immortals, ghosts, the afterlife, and Buddhist themes like karmic retribution. Originally compiled in either 20 or 30 volumes, the text was lost before the Northern Song dynasty but later reconstructed from citations in other works. A Qing dynasty recompilation gathered 158 stories, later expanded to 265. The collection stands as one of the earliest Chinese works ... Read More displaying Buddhist influences. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Show Less

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Author	Liu, Yiqing, 403-444
Editor	Genlin, Wang
Title	幽明錄
Alternate Title	You Ming Lu
Note	Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Ming_Lu
Credits	Produced by Shiang Wen Chen
Language	Chinese
LoC Class	AC: General Works: Collections, Series, Collected works, Pamphlets
Subject	China -- History -- Anecdotes
Subject	Curiosities and wonders -- China
Category	Text
EBook-No.	52278
Release Date	Jun 8, 2016
Most Recently Updated	Oct 23, 2024
Copyright Status	Public domain in the USA.
Downloads	378 downloads in the last 30 days.
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