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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ng, Zhiru, 1964- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, ©2007.
Colección:Studies in East Asian Buddhism ; no. 21.
Temas:
Kshitigarbha > (Buddhist deity)
RELIGION > Buddhism > General.
Acceso en línea: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.

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