Ritual and Worship in Medieval Chinese Buddhism: On Mañjuśrī's Formless Worship as Reflected in the Dunhuang Material
This essay concerns a ritual text, the Wuxiang li 无相礼 [Formless Worship], of which several copies have been found among the Dunhuang (敦煌) manuscripts. The study begins by identifying the earliest Chinese Buddhist material in which the concept of formlessness occurs and goes on to a discussion and an...
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