Wallis Mediating the Power of Buddhas

Ritual in the Mañjusrimulakalpa
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-7914-8842-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 279 Seiten

Reihe: SUNY series in Buddhist Studies

Analyzes a seventh-century ritual manual that provides both a rich source of information of medieval Buddhist life and addresses the ongoing concern of how an adherent can encounter the power of a buddha.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wallis, Glenn

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen Östliche Religionen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Acknowledgments
1: Introduction 1.1 Aims
1.2 Methods
1.3 The Text: Mañjusrimulakalpa
1.4 The Ritual
2: The Source of Power: The Assembly (sannipata)
2.1 Cosmology
2.2 Mmk 1: vision and cult
2.3 The text as cult image
2.4 Revelation and transmission
3: The Refraction of Power: The Cult Image (pata)
3.1 The pata as image and animated object
3.2 Creation of the cult object (patavidhana)
4: The Empowered Practitioner (sadhaka)
4.1 The practitioner in the text
4.2 The sadhaka
4.3 Epithets and space
5: Summary and Conclusion
Appendices
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Glenn Wallis is Assistant Professor in the Department of Religion at the University of Georgia.