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The Making of a Savior Bodhisattva : Dizang in Medieval China /
In modern Chinese Buddhism, Dizang is especially popular as the sovereign of the underworld. Often represented as a monk wearing a royal crown, Dizang helps the deceased faithful navigate the complex underworld bureaucracy, avert the punitive terrors of hell, and arrive at the happy realm of rebirth...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawaii Press,
[2007]
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| Colección: | Kuroda Studies in East Asian Buddhism ;
34 |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction .Problems and Perspectives
- PART 1: Early Images The Bodhisattva of This Defiled World
- chapter 1. Early Scriptural Representations Texts and Contexts
- chapter 2 .Cultic Beginnings Reconsidered
- PART 2: Multiple Images This World, Hell, and Pure Land
- chapter 3. Indigenous and Accretionary Scriptures
- chapter 4 .Art and Epigraphy
- chapter 5 .Narrative Literature
- Conclusion Reassessing Dizang, Lord of the Underworld
- Appendix 1. The Scripture on the Ten Wheels Reevaluating the Traditional Dating
- Appendix 2 .Antecedents of Dizang? Kšitigarbha in India and Central Asia
- Appendix 3 .Translations of Scriptures
- Works Cited
- Index
- About the Author