Esoteric Buddhism and Texts

ISBN-13: 9781032563206 / Twarda / 2024 / 244 str.

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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 (kengyō 顕経) from Amanosan Kongōji 天野山金剛寺 and Shinpukuji 真福寺 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 Bodhicittotpādasamādānavidhi  Part 2: Transborder Transmission  6. The Late Tang Esoteric Manual for Abhiṣeka: An Introduction, Analysis, and Translation of the Engyō Nyūdan  7. A (Presumably Chinese) tantric scripture and its Japanese exegesis: the Yuqi Jing 瑜祇經 and the practices of the Yogin  8. On the integration of Chinese, Tibetan, exoteric and esoteric Buddhism in the Tangut Kingdom  9. Kūkai’s transcultural rhetoric of prayer: on his writings inspired by the Chinese “prayer text” (yuanwen 願文)  10. Kūkai 空海 (774–835) and Saichō’s 最澄 (766–822) theories on gotra 種姓 (caste)

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.