The five-colored clouds of Mount Wutai: poems from Dunhuang

Preliminary Material -- 1. Ascending and Wandering -- 2. The Clear and the Cold -- 3. The Hall of the Great Sage -- 4. The Land of Vaiḍūrya -- 5. Inconceivable Light -- 6. The Gold-Colored World -- 7. Word and Image -- 8. Poetry as a Buddhist Matter -- Bibliography -- Index.

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1. VerfasserIn: Cartelli, Mary Anne (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Buch
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Leiden Boston Brill 2013
In:Jahr: 2013
Schriftenreihe/Zeitschrift:Sinica Leidensia volume 109
normierte Schlagwort(-folgen):B Wutai Shan / Buddhistische Literatur / Dunhuang / Lyrik
weitere Schlagwörter:B Dunhuang manuscripts
B Dunhuang Caves (China) Antiquities
B Mañjuśrī (Buddhist deity) Poetry
B Chinese Poetry Tang dynasty, 618-907 History and criticism
B Buddhism in literature
B Chinese Poetry Five dynasties and the Ten kingdoms, 907-979 History and criticism
B Buddhism Poetry
B Chinese Poetry Tang dynasty, 618-907 Translations into English
B Wutai Mountains (China) Poetry
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Zusammenfassung:Preliminary Material -- 1. Ascending and Wandering -- 2. The Clear and the Cold -- 3. The Hall of the Great Sage -- 4. The Land of Vaiḍūrya -- 5. Inconceivable Light -- 6. The Gold-Colored World -- 7. Word and Image -- 8. Poetry as a Buddhist Matter -- Bibliography -- Index.
In The Five-Colored Clouds of Mount Wutai: Poems from Dunhuang , Mary Anne Cartelli examines a set of poems from the Dunhuang manuscripts about Mount Wutai, the most sacred mountain in Chinese Buddhism. Dating from the Tang and Five Dynasties periods, they reflect the mountain’s transformation into the home of the bodhisattva Mañjuśrī, and provide important literary evidence for the development of Buddhism in China. This interdisciplinary study analyzes the poems using Buddhist scriptures and pilgrimage records, as well as the contemporaneous wall-painting of Mount Wutai in Dunhuang cave 61. The poems demonstrate how the mountain was created as a sacred Buddhist space, as their motifs reflect the cosmology associated with the mountain by the Tang dynasty, and they vividly portray the experience of the pilgrim traveling through a divinely empowered landscape
Beschreibung:Chinese poems in English translation about Mount Wutai, found among the Dunhuang manuscripts and dating to the Tang and Five Dynasties periods, with a comprehensive analysis of their context and significance
Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:9004241760
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