Buddhism in Central Asia II

Practices and Rituals, Visual and Material Transfer
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-50793-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 12, 560 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 238 mm, Gewicht: 1002 g

Reihe: Dynamics in the History of Religions

The ERC-funded research project BuddhistRoad aims to create a new framework to enable understanding of the complexities in the dynamics of cultural encounter and religious transfer in pre-modern Eastern Central Asia. Buddhism was one major factor in this exchange: for the first time the multi-layered relationships between the trans-regional Buddhist traditions (Chinese, Indian, Tibetan) and those based on local Buddhist cultures (Khotanese, Uyghur, Tangut) will be explored in a systematic way. The second volume Buddhism in Central Asia II—Practice and Rituals, Visual and Materials Transfer based on the mid-project conference held on September 16th–18th, 2019, at CERES, Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Germany) focuses on two of the six thematic topics addressed by the project, namely on “practices and rituals”, exploring material culture in religious context such as mandalas and talismans, as well as “visual and material transfer”, including shared iconographies and the spread of ‘Khotanese’ themes.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Kasai, Yukiyo

Sørensen, Henrik H.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Buddhismus Buddhismus: Leben & Praxis, Soziale Aspekte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Künstlerische Stoffe, Motive, Themen Künstlerische Stoffe, Motive, Themen: Religiöse Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword

Acknowledgements

General Abbreviations

Bibliographic Abbreviations

List of Illustrations

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Central Asia: Sacred Sites and the Transmission of Religious Practices

Yukiyo Kasai, Henrik H. Sørensen, and Haoran Hou

Part 1: Visual Material and Transfer

1 Did the Silk Road(s) Extend from Dunhuang, Mount Wutai, and Chang’an to Kyoto, Japan? A Reassessment Based on Material Culture from the Temple Gate Tendai Tradition of Miidera

George Keyworth

2 Representations of a Series of Large Buddha Figures in the Buddhist Caves of Kuca: Reflections on Their Origin and Meaning

Ines Konczak-Nagel

3 Buddhist Painting in the South of the Tarim Basin: A Chronological Conundrum

Ciro Lo Muzio

4 ‘Khotanese Themes’ in Dunhuang: Visual and Ideological Transfer in the 9th–11th Centuries

Erika Forte

5 The ‘Sogdian Deities’ Twenty Years on: A Reconsideration of a Small Painting from Dunhuang

Lilla Russell-Smith

Part 2: Practices and Rituals

6 Seeking the Pure Land in Tangut Art

Michelle C. Wang

7 The Avalokitesvara Cult in Turfan and Dunhuang in the Pre-Mongolian Period

Yukiyo Kasai

8 Bridging Yoga and Mahayoga: Samaya in Early Tantric Buddhism

Jacob P. Dalton

9 Visualising Oneself as the Cosmos: An Esoteric Buddhist Meditation Text from Dunhuang

Henrik H. Sørensen

10 Beyond Spatial and Temporal Contingencies: Tantric Rituals in Eastern Central Asia under Tangut Rule, 11th–13th C.

Carmen Meinert

11 The Serlingpa Acala in Tibet and the Tangut Empire

Iain Sinclair

12 Mahakala Literature Unearthed from Karakhoto

Haoran Hou

13 Practice and Rituals in Uyghur Buddhist Texts: A Preliminary Appraisal

Jens Wilkens

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Henrik H. Sørensen, Pd. D. (1988), Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany is project coordinator of the ERC project BuddhistRoad. He has published widely on Chinese and Korean Buddhism, in particular Esoteric Buddhist traditions. He served as co-editor of Esoteric Buddhism and the Tantras in East Asia (Brill, 2011). His current research focuses on Buddhism in Dunhuang.

Yukiyo Kasai, Ph.D. (2005), Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany is a research associate of the ERC project BuddhistRoad. She has published monographs and many articles on Old Uyghur Buddhist texts, including Uyghur Legitimation and the Role of Buddhism (Brill, 2020).