Buddhist Encounters and Identities Across East Asia

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-36600-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 10, 436 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 237 mm, Gewicht: 762 g

Reihe: Dynamics in the History of Religions

Encounters, networks, identities and diversity are at the core of the history of Buddhism. They are also the focus of Buddhist Encounters and Identities across East Asia, edited by Ann Heirman, Carmen Meinert and Christoph Anderl. While long-distance networks allowed Buddhist ideas to travel to all parts of East Asia, it was through local and trans-local networks and encounters, and a diversity of people and societies, that identities were made and negotiated. This book undertakes a detailed examination of discrete Buddhist identities rooted in unique cultural practices, beliefs and indigenous socio-political conditions. Moreover, it presents a fascinating picture of the intricacies of the regional and cross-regional networks that connected South and East Asia.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Heirman, Ann

Meinert, Carmen

Anderl, Christoph

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionssoziologie und -psychologie, Spiritualität, Mystik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Religionssoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Buddhismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations VIII
List of Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Networks and Identities in the Buddhist World
Tansen Sen

Part 1: Translocal Networks

1 Bagan Murals and the Sino-Tibetan World
Claudine Bautze-Picron

2 Noise along the Network: A Set of Chinese Ming Embroidered Thangkas in the Indian Himalayas
Rob Linrothe

3 Nation Founder and Universal Saviour: Guanyin and Buddhist Networks in the Nanzhao and Dali Kingdoms
Megan Bryson

4 A Study on the Combination of the Deities Fudo and Aizen in Medieval Shingon Esoteric Buddhism
Steven Trenson

5 The Transmission of the Buddhadharma from India to China: An Examination of Kumarajiva’s Transliteration of the Dharanis of the Saddharmapundarikasutra
Bryan Levman

6 The Journey of Zhao Xian and the Exile of Royal Descendants in the Yuan Dynasty (1271–1368)
Kaiqi Hua

Part 2: Negotiating and Constructing Identities

7 Wailing for Identity: Topical and Poetic Expressions of Cultural Belonging in Chinese Buddhist Literature
Max Deeg

8 How the Dharma Ended up in the “Eastern Country”: Korean Monks in the Chinese Buddhist Imaginaire during the Tang and Early Song
Sem Vermeersch

9 Buddhist Pilgrimage and Spiritual Identity: Korean Son Monks Journeying to Tang China in Search of the Dharma
Henrik H. Sørensen

10 The Rebirth Legend of Prince Shotoku: Buddhist Networks in Ninth Century China and Japan
Pei-Ying Lin

11 Because They Entrusted to Them a Part of Their Buddhist Selves—Imagined Communities, Layered Identities, and Networking
Bart Dessein

12 Bodily Care Identity in Buddhist Monastic Life of Ancient India and China: An Advancing Purity
Threshold
Ann Heirman

Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ann Heirman Ph.D. (1998), Ghent University, is Professor of Buddhist Studies and Classical Chinese. She has published extensively on Chinese Buddhist monasticism and the development of disciplinary rules, including Rules for Nuns according to the Dharmaguptakavinaya (Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi, 2002).

Carmen Meinert Ph.D. (2001), Ruhr-Universität Bochum, is Professor of Central Asian Religions. Her research interest focuses on the transfer of Buddhism in Central Asia, Tibet and China. Her latest publication is Transfer of Buddhism Across Central Asian Networks (7th to 13th Centuries) (Brill 2016).

Christoph Anderl Ph.D. (2004), Ghent University, is Professor of Buddhist Studies and Chinese Linguistics, with an emphasis on the vernacular language of Medieval China and Chan Buddhist material among the Dunhuang manuscripts.