The Buddhist literature in Mount Wutai: the Chinese Buddhist canon and Tibetan Buddhist canon
Mount Wutai 五臺山 is one of the four major Buddhist pilgrimage mountains. People remember the landscape of more than 40 temples where they pay homage to Bodhisattva Mañjuśrī. Scholarly works on Mount Wutai focus on topics such as architecture, rituals and interactions between Chinese and Tibetans. Wit...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2025
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| In: |
Studies in Chinese Religions
Year: 2025, Volume: 11, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 37-66 |
| Further subjects: | B
Emperor Zhengtong
B Yongle Northern Canon B Emperor Wanli B Kanjur B Empress Dowager Li B Mount Wutai |
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| Summary: | Mount Wutai 五臺山 is one of the four major Buddhist pilgrimage mountains. People remember the landscape of more than 40 temples where they pay homage to Bodhisattva Mañjuśrī. Scholarly works on Mount Wutai focus on topics such as architecture, rituals and interactions between Chinese and Tibetans. With the passing of time, the memory of Buddhist scriptures in both Chinese and Tibetan languages that were donated to temples has become slim. In this article, the author aims to bring into light the Chinese Buddhist literature kept in temples in Mount Wutai, mainly the Chinese Buddhist canon engraved in the Yongle period 永樂 (1402–1424) and the Tibetan Buddhist Kanjur. Among the four major Buddhist pilgrim mountains, the temples of Wutai received more Buddhist canons than the other three mountains. Why did Ming Court favor temples in Wutai by bestowing more sets of Buddhist canon? What were the reasons behind the scenes? A number of temples kept sets of the Tibetan Kanjur and Tenjur printed in both Ming and Qing dynasties. This article aims to put these pieces of information together to provide a panoramic picture of the Buddhist literature kept in temples in Mount Wutai, China – the Buddhist literature in the past and the present. |
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| ISSN: | 2372-9996 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Studies in Chinese Religions
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/23729988.2025.2532283 |
