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Huaiyu Chen examines how Buddhist ideas about animals changed and were changed by medieval Chinese culture. He explores the entangled relations among animals, religions, the state, and local communities, considering both the multivalent meanings associated with animals and the daily experience of living with the natural world.

Animals --- Religious aspects --- Buddhism. --- Buddhism. --- Confucianism. --- Daoism. --- animal studies. --- animals. --- environmental studies. --- iconography. --- medieval Chinese culture. --- medieval Chinese religion. --- parrots. --- religious studies. --- snakes. --- tigers. --- visual studies.