Esoteric Buddhism in mediaeval maritime Asia: networks of masters, texts, icons
Esoteric Buddhism in mediaeval maritime Asia : networks of masters, texts, icons -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Conventions -- Chapter 1. Introduction: Esoteric Buddhist Networks along the Maritime Silk Routes, 7th–13th Century AD by Andrea Acri -- PART I: MONKS, TEXTS, PATRONS...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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ISEAS Publishing
2016
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| In: | Year: 2016 |
| Series/Journal: | Nalanda-Sriwijaya Series
27 |
| Further subjects: | B
Tantric Buddhism
B Buddhist art and symbolism |
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| Summary: | Esoteric Buddhism in mediaeval maritime Asia : networks of masters, texts, icons -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Conventions -- Chapter 1. Introduction: Esoteric Buddhist Networks along the Maritime Silk Routes, 7th–13th Century AD by Andrea Acri -- PART I: MONKS, TEXTS, PATRONS -- Chapter 2. Coronation and Liberation According to a Javanese Monk in China: Bianhong’s Manual on the abhi?eka of a cakravartin by Iain Sinclair -- Chapter 3. Saṅ Hyaṅ Kamahāyānikan, Borobudur, and the Origins of Esoteric Buddhism in Indonesia by Hudaya Kandahjaya -- Chapter 4. Traces of Indonesian Influences in Tibet by Ian A. Schoterman -- Chapter 5. The Politics of Esoteric Buddhism: Amoghavajra and the Tang State by Geoffrey Goble -- Chapter 6. (Spi)ritual Warfare in 13th-Century Asia? International Relations, the Balance of Powers, and the Tantric Buddhism of K?tanagara and Khubilai Khan by David Bade -- PART II: ART, ARCHITECTURE, AND MATERIAL CULTURE -- Chapter 7. Images of Devotion and Power in South and Southeast Bengal by Claudine Bautze-Picron -- Chapter 8. Borobudur’s Pala Forebear? A Field Note from Kesariya, Bihar, India by Swati Chemburkar -- Chapter 9. Imagery, Ritual, and Ideology: Examining the Mahavihara at Ratnagiri by Natasha Reichle -- Chapter 10. Seeds of Vajrabodhi: Buddhist Ritual Bronzes from Java and Khorat by Peter D. Sharrock & Emma C. Bunker -- Chapter 11. Archaeological Evidence for Esoteric Buddhism in Sumatra, 7th to 13th Century by John Miksic -- Chapter 12. The Tale of Sudhana and Manohara on Candi Jago: An Interpretation of a Series of Narrative Bas-reliefs on a 13th-Century East Javanese Monument by Kate O'Brien -- PART III: BAUDDHA-SAIVA DYNAMICS -- Chapter 14. Mid-9th-Century Adversity for Sinhalese Esoteric Buddhist Exemplars in Java: Lord Kumbhayoni and the ‘Rag-wearer’ Pa?sukulika Monks of the Abhayagirivihara by Jeffrey R. Sundberg -- Chapter 15. A Śaiva Text in Chinese Garb? An Annotated Translation of the Suji liyan Moxishouluo tian shuo aweishe fa by Rolf W. Giebel -- Appendix A: The Names of Nagabuddhi and Vajrabuddhi by Iain Sinclair -- Appendix B: Notes on the Alleged Reading valaputra on the Pikatan Funeral Stele by Jeffrey R. Sundberg -- Index -- Nalanda-Sriwijaya Series. This volume advocates a trans-regional, and maritime-focused, approach to studying the genesis, development and circulation of Esoteric (or Tantric) Buddhism across Maritime Asia from the seventh to the thirteenth centuries AD. The book lays emphasis on the mobile networks of human agents ('Masters'), textual sources ('Texts') and images ('Icons') through which Esoteric Buddhist traditions spread. Capitalising on recent research and making use of both disciplinary and area-focused perspectives, this book highlights the role played by Esoteric Buddhist maritime networks in shaping intra-Asian connectivity. In doing so, it reveals the limits of a historiography that is premised on land-based transmission of Buddhism from a South Asian 'homeland', and advances an alternative historical narrative that overturns the popular perception regarding Southeast Asia as a 'periphery' that passively received overseas influences. Thus, a strong point is made for the appreciation of the region as both a crossroads and rightful terminus of Buddhist cults, and for the re-evaluation of the creative and transformative force of Southeast Asian agents in the transmission of Esoteric Buddhism across mediaeval Asia |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 9814695084 |