Chinese Ancestor Worship: A Practice and Ritual Oriented Approach to Understanding Chinese Culture, by William Lakos This book first published 2010
It concludes by demonstrating the impact of ritual in facilitating a therapeutic experience of contact with one's ancestors that can physically contradict the
A 'hungry ghost' is cut adrift in the spirit world and can be vengeful and dangerous In Ancient China this ancestor worship cult was already in evidence
The creation of Confucianism was neither simple nor sudden, as three examples will make clear In the year 136 B C E the classical writings touted by
recognized in ancient and classical China, ancestor worship is generally seen by that is the rituals of ancestor worship, will be 'thickly' described
recognized in ancient and classical China, ancestor worship is generally ancestor worship, that is the rituals of ancestor worship, will be 'thickly' described