Esoteric Buddhism and Texts (eBook, ePUB)

Volume I, Manuscript Culture and Transborder Transmission
Redaktion: Chen, Jinhua

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores trans-cultural and cross-border transmission and transformation of Esoteric Buddhism in East Asia, focusing on its manuscript culture and the transborder transmission of Esoteric Buddhist texts. The chapters focus on two major aspects of textual Esoteric Buddhism-its manuscript culture and transborder transmission.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781003853558
• Artikelnr.: 69570461

Autorenporträt

Jinhua Chen, fellow of Royal Society of Canada, is Professor of East Asian Religions at University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, and a Visiting Professor at several major universities, including TokyoU (2003-04) and Stanford (2012). He has published extensively on state-church relationships, monastic biographical literature, sacred sites, relic veneration, Buddhism and technology.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Esoteric Manuscript Culture 1. Dunhuang was not isolated: examples such as 'Master Yixing sets up earth-wheel lamps' and others from Yunnan 2. Following medieval Chinese Buddhist precedents with ritual practices using exoteric Buddhist scriptures (kengy ) from Amanosan Kong ji and Shinpukuji in medieval Japan 3. Reception and transformation of the Huiji Jin'gang shuo shentong daman tuoluoni fashu Lingyao men: the discovery and significance of medieval Japanese scripture manuscripts 4. A preliminary study on one folio of Tibetan tantric ritual text recently collected by the national library of China 5. Tangut Buddhism and the Bodhicittotpadasamadanavidhi Part 2: Transborder Transmission 6. The Late Tang Esoteric Manual for Abhiseka: an introduction, analysis, and translation of the Engy Nyudan 7. A (presumably Chinese) tantric scripture and its Japanese exegesis: the Yuqi Jing and the practices of the Yogin 8. On the integration of Chinese, Tibetan, exoteric and esoteric Buddhism in the Tangut Kingdom 9. Kukai's transcultural rhetoric of prayer: on his writings inspired by the Chinese "prayer text" (yuanwen ) 10. Kukai (774-835) and Saich 's (766-822) theories on gotra (caste)