Rövid leírás:

This book explore the transcultural, multi-ethnic, and cross-regional contexts and connections between the Buddh?vata?saka-s?tra, Mount Wutai and the veneration of Ma?juśr? that contributed to the establishment and successive transformations of the cult centered on Mount Wutai.

Hosszú leírás:

The chapters in this book explore the transcultural, multi-ethnic, and cross-regional contexts and connections between the Buddh?vata?saka-s?tra, Mount Wutai and the veneration of Ma?juśr? that contributed to the establishment and successive transformations of the cult centered on Mount Wutai ? and reduplications elsewhere. The contributions reflect on the literature, architecture, iconography, medicine, society, philosophy and several other aspects of the Wutai cult and its significant influence across several Asian cultures, such as Chinese, Japanese, Tibetan, Mongolian and Korean.

This book is a significant new contribution to the study of the Wutai cult, and will be a great resource for academics, researchers, and advanced students of Religion, Philosophy, History, Architecture, Literature and Art.

The chapters in this book were originally published in the journal Studies in Chinese Religions.

Tartalomjegyzék:

Foreword The Transmission of Wutai Cult from South Asia to China 1. A chemical ?explosion? triggered by an encounter between Indian and Chinese medical sciences: another look at the significances of the Sinhalese Monk Ś?kyamitra?s (567?? 668+ ) visit at Mount Wutai in 667 2. Fazang?s theory of zhenru ?? (Skt. tathat?) and zhongxing ?? (Skt. gotra): with a focus on the influence of the Ratnagotravibh?ga 3. Gathering medicines among the cypress: the relationship between healing and place in the earliest records of Mount Wutai The Spread of the Wutai Cult in China: Center and Margins 4. A study on a stone lantern from Dongzhang village in medieval China 5. Northern Wei Wutaishan: an outside view of centres and peripheries 6. How the Mount Wutai cult stimulated the development of Chinese Chan in southern China at Qingliang monasteries 7. The way of the Nine Palaces (jiugong dao ???): a lay Buddhist movement The Wutai Cult in Japan 8. Moving monks and mountains: Ch?gen and the cults of Gy?ki, Ma?juśr?, and Wutai 9. Decentering Ma?juśr?: some aspects of Ma?juśr??s cult in medieval Japan 10. Representations of the Wutai Mountains in classical Japanese literature The Wutai Cult in Tibet, Mongolia, Khotan and Korea 11. Tibeto- Mongol Buddhist architecture and iconography on Wutaishan, seventeenth to early twentieth centuries 12. A visit of Christian missionaries at Mount Wutai: Mongol Buddhism from a cross- cultural perspective 13. The Ma?juśr? cult in Khotan 14. Ennin?s (793? 864) Sillan connections on his journey to Mt. Wutai: a fresh look at Ennin?s travel record