Buddhist encounters and identities across East Asia /

Buddhist encounters and identities across East Asia / / edited by Ann Heirman, Carmen Meinert, Christoph Anderl.

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Encounters, networks, identities and diversity are at the core of the history of Buddhism. They are also the focus of Buddhist Encounters and Identities across East Asia , edited by Ann Heirman, Carmen Meinert and Christoph Anderl. While long-distance networks allowed Buddhist ideas to travel to all...

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Heirman, Ann.
Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2018.
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Dynamics in the History of Religions 10.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright page
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Illustrations
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction: Networks and Identities in the Buddhist World / Tansen Sen
  • Translocal Networks
  • Bagan Murals and the Sino-Tibetan World / Claudine Bautze-Picron
  • Noise along the Network: A Set of Chinese Ming Embroidered Thangkas in the Indian Himalayas / Rob Linrothe
  • Nation Founder and Universal Saviour: Guanyin and Buddhist Networks in the Nanzhao and Dali Kingdoms / Megan Bryson
  • A Study on the Combination of the Deities Fudō and Aizen in Medieval Shingon Esoteric Buddhism / Steven Trenson
  • The Transmission of the Buddhadharma from India to China: An Examination of Kumārajīva’s Transliteration of the Dhāraṇīs of the Saddharmapuṇḍarīkasūtra / Bryan Levman
  • The Journey of Zhao Xian and the Exile of Royal Descendants in the Yuan Dynasty (1271–1368)1 / Kaiqi Hua
  • Negotiating and Constructing Identities
  • Wailing for Identity: Topical and Poetic Expressions of Cultural Belonging in Chinese Buddhist Literature / Max Deeg
  • How the Dharma Ended Up in the “Eastern Country”: Korean Monks in the Chinese Buddhist Imaginaire during the Tang and Early Song / Sem Vermeersch
  • Buddhist Pilgrimage and Spiritual Identity: Korean Sŏn Monks Journeying to Tang China in Search of the Dharma / Henrik H. Sørensen
  • The Rebirth Legend of Prince Shōtoku: Buddhist Networks in Ninth Century China and Japan / Pei-ying Lin
  • Because They Entrusted to Them a Part of Their Buddhist Selves—Imagined Communities, Layered Identities, and Networking / Bart Dessein
  • Bodily Care Identity in Buddhist Monastic Life of Ancient India and China: An Advancing Purity Threshold / Ann Heirman
  • Back Matter
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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