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Authority over Death: Two Tales Related to the Lord of Mount Tai in Konjaku Monogatarishū

Tales of Times Now Past (Konjaku Monogatarishū 今昔物語集) is a Japanese setsuwa (anecdotes) collection dating from the early twelfth century. Originally contained in 31 volumes, it includes more than one thousand systematically arranged tales from India, China, and Japan. Despite the fact that Daoism wa...

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Published in:Religions (Basel, Switzerland ) Switzerland ), 2023-10, Vol.14 (10), p.1309
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