The Transnational Cult of Mount Wutai explores the pan-East Asian significance of sacred Mount Wutai from the Northern Dynasties to the present day. Offering novel readings of comparatively familiar visual and textual sources and, in many cases, examining unstudied or understudied noncanonical materials, the papers collected here illuminate the roles that both local actors and individuals dwelling far beyond Mount Wutais borders have played in its making and remaking as a holy place for more than fifteen hundred years. The work aims to contribute to our understanding of the ways that sacred geography is made and remade in new places and times.
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| Introduction |
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PART 1 Court Patronage and State Control |
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1 From Mount Wutai to the Seven Jewel Tower: Monk Degan and Political Propaganda of the Wuzhou Period |
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2 Faith and Realpolitik: Tang Dynasty Esoteric Buddhism at Mount Wutai |
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3 Monastic Officials on Wutai Shan under the Ming dynasty |
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4 Beyond Seeking for Sacredness: Shedding New Light on the Carving of the Jiaxing Canon on Mount Wutai |
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PART 2 Pilgrims and Sacred Sites |
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5 A Japanese Pilgrim's Visit to Wutai in the Winter of 1072 |
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6 The Pilgrimage Account of Duke MiYvacu of Alasa to Mount Wutai in 1938 |
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7 Visions in Translation: A Qing-Gelukpa Guidebook to Mount Wutai |
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8 Mount Wutai and Manjusri in Old Uigur Buddhism |
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9 How Important is Mount Wutai? Sacred Space in a Zen Mirror |
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PART 3 Changing Practices at Mount Wutai |
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10 Lama Nenghai's Imprint on Mount Wutai: Sino-Tibetan Buddhism among the Five Plateaus since the 1930s |
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11 The Pure Land Teachings of Fazhao and the Manjusri Cult of Mount Wutai |
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288 | (18) |
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12 Fazhao, Jin Bifeng, and Constructed Histories of Buddhist Chant and Music at Mount Wutai |
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PART 4 Replicating Mount Wutai |
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13 The Legacy of the True Visage: The Manjusri Statues at Zhenrong Yuan and Shuxiang Si of Mount Wutai |
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323 | (29) |
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14 Khotan and Mount Wutai: The Significance of Central Asian Actors in the Making of the Mountain Cult |
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352 | (15) |
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15 Transnational Mountain Cult, Local Religiopolitical and Economic Concerns: Mount Wutai and the Kamakura Period Miracle Tales of Tonomine |
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367 | (18) |
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16 The Emergence of the "Five-Terrace Mountain" Cult in Korea |
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17 Flying Manjusri and Moving Mount Wutai Towards the Xi Xia Period: As Seen from Dunhuang Caves |
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Susan Andrews, Ph.D. (2012), Columbia University, is Associate Professor of East Asian Religions at Mount Allison University. Her research explores sacred place and pilgrimage, Buddhisms interactions with autochthonous forms of practice, the economics of religious life, and participative pedagogy.
Jinhua Chen is a professor at the University of British Columbia and a visiting professor at several major universities, including Tokyo University (2003-04), Stanford (2012) and Capital Normal University (2019-20). He has published extensively on state-church relationships, monastic (hagio/)biographical literature, Buddhist sacred sites, relic veneration, Buddhism and technological innovation in medieval East Asia.
Kuan Guang, Ph.D.(2010), SOAS, is a Research Fellow in Chinese Buddhism at Kings College, London. Kuan Guang's principle research interests lie in the history and texts of Chinese Buddhism, with a particular expertise and interest in translating classical Chinese Buddhist and historical texts. His current study is focused on Ming Buddhist history, particularly on an internationally well-known Buddhist pilgrimage centre Wutai Shan.
