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Maṇḍalas in the making : the visual culture of esoteric Buddhism at Dunhuang /
The first scholarly monograph on Buddhist maṇḍalas in China, this book examines the Maṇḍala of Eight Great Bodhisattvas. This iconographic template, in which a central Buddha is flanked by eight attendants, flourished during the Tibetan (786-848) and post-Tibetan Guiyijun (848-1036) periods at D...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2018.
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| Colección: | Sinica Leidensia ;
Volume 139. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of Illustrations
- List of Abbreviations and Conventions
- Note to the Reader
- Introduction
- Recentering Buddhism at Dunhuang
- The Shingon Impact
- Maṇḍalas in the Making
- Overview of Chapters
- Chapter 1
- From Dhāraṇī to Maṇḍala
- Dhāraṇī Pillars in Medieval China
- Maṇḍalas and Altars
- Visualizing the Maṇḍala
- Chapter 2
- The Crowned Buddha and Narratives of Enlightenment
- The Cult of Vairocana in Early Tibet
- The Crowned Buddha
- Networks of Transmission
- Stylistic Bilingualism in Images of Vairocana
- The Eight Bodhisattvas
- Chapter 3
- Maṇḍalas and Historical Memory
- Mogao Cave 156 and the Victory of Zhang Yichao
- The Cult of Avalokiteśvara at Dunhuang
- The Maṇḍala of Eight Great Bodhisattvas in the Guiyijun Period
- Amoghavajra and the Vajradhātu Maṇḍala
- Maṇḍalas and Ritual Space
- Chapter 4
- Maṇḍalas, Repentance, and Vision
- The Vajra Realm in Ritual Manuals from Dunhuang
- The Five Buddhas and Repentance Altars
- Chapter 5
- Beyond the Maṇḍala
- Bodhisattvas and Repentance
- The Kalyāṇamitras as Embodied Experience
- The Vows of Samantabhadra
- The Ascent to the Dharma Realm
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index.