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A Tide of Merit: Royal Donors, Tāmraparṇīya Monks, and the Buddha’s Awakening in 5th–6th-century Āndhradeśa
Tournier, Vincent
Stressing the importance of 5th–6th-century copper-plate charters connected to the Viṣṇukuṇḍin dynasty for the history of Buddhism in Āndhradeśa, this article demonstrates that, contrary to earlier scholarly assumptions, and despite the paucity of archeological evidence for Buddhist activity at that time, Buddhist lineages still benefitted from lavish donations by ruling families. This study consists of three parts: the first explores the representation of two Viṣṇukuṇḍin rulers as Buddhist kings, and shows how their portraits and their aspirations are permeated by the ideology of the Bodhisattvayāna. The second part examines one of the main recipients of royal donations, the Sthā̆vira/Theriya lineage of the Tāmraparṇīyas, already known from inscriptions issued under the previous Ikṣvāku dynasty. The analysis of these earlier records from Nagarjunakonda in light of little-studied copper plates shows that the Tāmraparṇīyas had a strong institutional presence in Āndhradeśa from the mid-3rd to the late 6th century. The lineage’s connections with Laṅkā and with other Theriya centres along the Bay of Bengal are delineated through a close examination of the terminology used in the inscriptions under scrutiny, in light of co-eval records, and especially of Pāli Vinaya literature and historical narratives. The last part of this article focuses on a poetic allusion to the episode of the Buddha’s victory over Māra included in the opening stanza of a grant issued by king Pr̥thivīśrīmūla. The evidence suggests that this record connects for the first time the water poured by Śākyamuni in his previous lives as a Bodhisattva with a flood that drove away Māra’s army from the seat of Awakening, a motif that grew—like a tide—and spread across Southeast Asia.
Brill
2018-01-25
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Tournier, Vincent (2018) 'A Tide of Merit: Royal Donors, Tāmraparṇīya Monks, and the Buddha’s Awakening in 5th–6th-century Āndhradeśa.' Indo-Iranian Journal, 61 (1). pp. 20-96.
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oai:eprints.soas.ac.uk:35526
2022-12-29T13:42:04Z
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https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/35526/
Lafcadio Hearn(小泉八雲)の英文学作品における仏教語について
Li, Zijie
Komazawa University
2021-02-15
Journal Article
PeerReviewed
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https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/35526/1/Lafcadio%20Hearn%28%E5%B0%8F%E6%B3%89%E5%85%AB%E9%9B%B2%29%E3%81%AE%E8%8B%B1%E6%96%87%E5%AD%A6%E4%BD%9C%E5%93%81%E3%81%AB%E3%81%8A%E3%81%91%E3%82%8B%E4%BB%8F%E6%95%99%E8%AA%9E%E3%81%AB%E3%81%A4%E3%81%84%E3%81%A6%20%28%E6%9D%8E%E5%AD%90%E6%8D%B7%29.pdf
Li, Zijie (2021) 'Lafcadio Hearn(小泉八雲)の英文学作品における仏教語について.' 仏教文学研究 (Journal of comparative Buddhist literature), 24. pp. 56-70.
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oai:eprints.soas.ac.uk:36576
2024-02-09T15:24:20Z
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https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/36576/
初期中国唯识的转依parivṛtti与真如tathatā [On Zhuanyi(parivṛtti) and Zhenru(tathatā) at the early stage of Chinese Yogācāra]
宗教文化出版社 [Zongjiao wenhua chubanshe]
Li, Zijie
2022-01-10
Edited Book or Journal Volume
PeerReviewed
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https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/36576/1/%E5%88%9D%E6%9C%9F%E4%B8%AD%E5%9B%BD%E5%94%AF%E8%AF%86%E7%9A%84%E8%BD%AC%E4%BE%9Dpariv%E1%B9%9Btti%E4%B8%8E%E7%9C%9F%E5%A6%82tathat%C4%81%28%E6%9D%8E%E5%AD%90%E6%8D%B7%E3%83%BB%E5%94%AF%E8%AF%86%E7%A0%94%E7%A9%B6%E7%AC%AC%E5%85%AB%E8%BE%91%29.pdf
Li, Zijie, ed. (2022) 初期中国唯识的转依parivṛtti与真如tathatā [On Zhuanyi(parivṛtti) and Zhenru(tathatā) at the early stage of Chinese Yogācāra]. Beijing, China: 宗教文化出版社 [Zongjiao wenhua chubanshe]. info:eu-repo/semantics/objectFileinfo:eu-repo/semantics/humanStartPage
oai:eprints.soas.ac.uk:36581
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On the use of human remains in Tibetan ritual objects
Fuentes, Ayesha
GN Anthropology
NX Arts in general
TT Handicrafts Arts and crafts
B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion
This dissertation explores material knowledge and cultural histories of the use of human remains in Tibetan ritual objects by means of the combined methodologies of conservation, technical art history, iconographic analysis, cultural anthropology and material culture studies. This research describes historical narratives for the formalization of Buddhist tantra through the incorporation of practices and materials for ritualized charnel asceticism as well as the diverse refinements, applications and representations of these objects in Tibetan visual and material culture. Specifically, this work explores evidence for the use of skulls and charnel (viz. bone) ornaments in sources for Buddhist mahāyoga and yoginī _tantra; the rkang gling or thighbone trumpet in the material culture of gcod; and the cultivation of Tibetan iconographies which utilize these instruments in representations of siddhas or other accomplished ritual practitioners as well as the characterization of wrathful deities (e.g. Heruka) and yoginī/ḍākinī _intermediaries. Furthermore, this dissertation presents a technical study of skulls, bone ornaments, rkang gling and the skull ḍamaru by means of objects accessible in museum collections and a campaign of fieldwork in which a variety of practitioners, fabricators and observers were engaged directly in order to document the sourcing, preparation, construction, and circulation of these materials and a diversity of present social values, handling strategies and ritual functions. By positioning current practices in relation to the historical narratives and sources which have conditioned the use and valorization of these objects in Tibetan material religion, this research suggests an interpretive rubric and technical vocabulary for understanding the ritual instrumentalization of human remains as a dynamic and continuously innovative cultural process.
2021
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Fuentes, Ayesha (2021) On the use of human remains in Tibetan ritual objects. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00036581 <https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00036581>
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Saints, Sects, and (Holy) Sites: The Jesuit Mapping of Japanese Buddhism (Sixteenth Century)
Dolce, Lucia
D'Ortia, Linda Zampol
Pinto, Ana Fernandes
Peter Lang
Curvelo, Alexandra
Cattaneo, Angelo
2022-03
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Dolce, Lucia, D'Ortia, Linda Zampol and Pinto, Ana Fernandes (2022) 'Saints, Sects, and (Holy) Sites: The Jesuit Mapping of Japanese Buddhism (Sixteenth Century).' In: Curvelo, Alexandra and Cattaneo, Angelo, (eds.), Interactions Between Rivals: The Christian Mission and Buddhist Sects in Japan (c.1549-c.1647). Berlin: Peter Lang, pp. 67-107. (Passagem, Volume 17)
https://www.peterlang.com/document/1190560
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2022-08-30T14:52:24Z
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https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/37693/
Review of: Worldly Saviors and Imperial Authority in Medieval Chinese Buddhism. By April D. Hughes
Eichman, Jennifer
Oxford University Press
2022-06-25
Book Reviews
NonPeerReviewed
Eichman, Jennifer (2022) 'Review of: Worldly Saviors and Imperial Authority in Medieval Chinese Buddhism. By April D. Hughes.' Journal of Church and State, 64 (3). pp. 517-519.
https://academic.oup.com/jcs/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/jcs/csac034/6617756
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2022-12-05T11:22:24Z
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“This is The Very Place!”: Shi Daoxuan 釋道宣 (c. 596–667) and The Creation of Buddhist Sacred Sites in China
Nicol, Janine
Scholars such as John Strong and James Robson have laid firm foundations for the study of the development of Buddhist sacred geography, highlighting the role of relics, stupas and the importance of pre-Buddhist sites of religious significance. Their work has inspired this paper which examines extracts from three texts produced by the monk Shi Daoxuan between 650 and 667 ce: the Shijia fangzhi 釋迦方志 (A Geography of the Śākyas, 650 ce), the Ji Shenzhou Sanbao gantong lu 集神州三寶感通錄 (Collected Records of Stimulus and Responses to the Triple Gem in the Divine Continent, 664) and the Lüxiang gantong zhuan 律相感通傳 (Account of the Stimuli and Responses Related to the Vinaya, 667). Concentrating on two places, the Zhongnan Mountains and Mount Wutai, these materials provide a rare opportunity to examine the role one man played in the promotion of these sites over few decades. This paper argues that Daoxuan was among the first to promote the idea of Mañjuśrī being present in China, initially in the Zhongnan, and only latterly on Wutai, and that Daoxuan was influenced by the picture of Indian Buddhist sacred geography provided by the accounts of Xuanzang’s travels in his consolidation and development of a similar geography for China. Daoxuan utilised Buddhist and non-Buddhist writings, and eyewitness testimony from the human realm and beyond, in his efforts to promote these two places. A close reading of these extracts can provide insight into the factors which stimulate the creation of sacred sites, and the methods and processes through which they develop and evolve.
Brill
2022-11-14
Journal Article
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Nicol, Janine (2022) '“This is The Very Place!”: Shi Daoxuan 釋道宣 (c. 596–667) and The Creation of Buddhist Sacred Sites in China.' East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine, 54 (2). pp. 200-237.
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A Sutra as a Notebook? Printing and Repurposing Scriptures in Medieval Japan
Dolce, Lucia
This study considers how printed scriptures were repurposed in medieval Japan through manuscript interventions. My starting point is the so-called Chū Hokekyō (Annotated Lotus Sutra), a copy of the Lotus Sutra probably printed in the Nara area and owned by the monk Nichiren (1222–1282). On this sutric text Nichiren wrote “notes,” filling the negative space between the lines of the scripture, the upper and lower margins of the printed area, and the verso. Such interventions generate a palimpsestic object, overlapping two types of text, the printed and the manuscript, and creating complex dynamics of interaction and multiple use. Is there a relation between what is inserted and the point of the scripture at which it is inserted? What information is supplemented by the “notes,” and to whom is this directed? Nichiren’s Lotus Sutra also urges us to interrogate the status and function of Buddhist printing in medieval Japan. Were sutras printed to be used as learning tools (reading matter and reference material), or does Nichiren’s specimen document a practice of repurposing scriptures originally printed for other reasons? How many scriptures were printed and how many were annotated? What was the nature of such paratextual accretions? This article explores these questions by reconstructing the life of the Annotated Lotus Sutra as an object that was produced with specific techniques and continued its life after Nichiren’s death. In order to contextualize this object, the article retrieves the printing history of the scripture owned by Nichiren, the Lotus Sutra, and the diverse practices of repurposing that affected this genre of printed scriptures in the medieval period.
Smithsonian Institution, Washinton DC
2023-05-15
Journal Article
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Dolce, Lucia (2023) 'A Sutra as a Notebook? Printing and Repurposing Scriptures in Medieval Japan.' Ars Orientalis, 52. pp. 40-74.
https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/ars/article/id/3987/
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