Esoteric Buddhism and Texts

ISBN-13: 9781032563077 / Twarda / 2024 / 222 str.

Opis

This book explores trans-cultural and cross-border transformation of Esoteric Buddhism in East Asia, focusing on the significance of Esoteric Buddhism in relation to some forms of material culture, including rituals, arts, and the construction of sacred space and narratives.

Spis treści

Part 1: Mantra/Dhāraṇī and Esoteric Rituals  1. Image, ritual and mantra: a study on Esoteric rituals of Dipper Mother Mārīcī  2. Chinese and Tibetan Sources on the Dhāraṇī in Roll Seven of the *Śūraṃgama-sūtra  3. Interpretation of the Unique Dhāraṇīs: Focusing on the Shi Moheyan lun 釋摩訶衍論  Part 2: Esoteric Arts  4. Chinese visual texts, Japanese spatial contexts: Mandala installation and the reading of empowered space in Japan  5. Dome of Heaven: the role of esoteric Buddhism in the Hall of Heavenly Kings at Mogao  6. Images of Thousand-armed and Thousand-eyed Avalokiteśvara with Cintāmaṇicakra and Amoghapāśa as attendants: References to the chanting of the ‘Dabeixin Dhāraṇī’ 大悲心陀羅尼  Part 3: Sacred Space and Narratives  7. Examining Amoghavajra’s flat-earth cosmology: religious vs. scientific worldviews in Buddhist astrology  8. Ximing monastery’s esoteric Buddhist traditions  9. Eison, Monkan, and the cult of founders in medieval Japan: on the construction of narrative and material selves in East Asian Buddhism

O autorze

Jinhua Chen, Fellow of Royal Society of Canada, is Professor of East Asian Religions at University of British Columbia, 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.