The chapters in this book explore the transcultural, multi-ethnic, and cross-regional contexts and connections between the Buddhvatasaka-stra, Mount Wutai and the veneration of Mañjur that contributed to the establishment and successive transformations of the cult centered on Mount Wutai and reduplications elsewhere. The contributions reflect on the literature, architecture, iconography, medicine, society, philosophy and several other aspects of the Wutai cult and its significant influence across several Asian cultures, such as Chinese, Japanese, Tibetan, Mongolian and Korean.
This book is a significant new contribution to the study of the Wutai cult, and will be a great resource for academics, researchers, and advanced students of Religion, Philosophy, History, Architecture, Literature and Art.
The chapters in this book were originally published in the journal Studies in Chinese Religions.
Foreword The Transmission of Wutai Cult from South Asia to China
1. A
chemical explosion triggered by an encounter between Indian and Chinese
medical sciences: another look at the significances of the Sinhalese Monk
kyamitras (567? 668+ ) visit at Mount Wutai in 667
2. Fazangs theory of
zhenru (Skt. tathat) and zhongxing (Skt. gotra): with a focus on the
influence of the Ratnagotravibhga
3. Gathering medicines among the cypress:
the relationship between healing and place in the earliest records of Mount
Wutai The Spread of the Wutai Cult in China: Center and Margins
4. A study on
a stone lantern from Dongzhang village in medieval China
5. Northern Wei
Wutaishan: an outside view of centres and peripheries
6. How the Mount Wutai
cult stimulated the development of Chinese Chan in southern China at
Qingliang monasteries
7. The way of the Nine Palaces (jiugong dao ): a lay
Buddhist movement The Wutai Cult in Japan
8. Moving monks and mountains:
Chgen and the cults of Gyki, Mañjur, and Wutai
9. Decentering Mañjur:
some aspects of Mañjurs cult in medieval Japan
10. Representations of the
Wutai Mountains in classical Japanese literature The Wutai Cult in Tibet,
Mongolia, Khotan and Korea
11. Tibeto- Mongol Buddhist architecture and
iconography on Wutaishan, seventeenth to early twentieth centuries
12. A
visit of Christian missionaries at Mount Wutai: Mongol Buddhism from a cross-
cultural perspective
13. The Mañjur cult in Khotan
14. Ennins (793 864)
Sillan connections on his journey to Mt. Wutai: a fresh look at Ennins
travel record
Jinhua Chen , Fellow of Royal Society of Canada, Professor at the University of British Columbia and a visiting professor at several universities, including Tokyo University (200304), Stanford (2012) and Capital Normal University (201920). He has published extensively on state-church relationships, monastic biographical literature, sacred sites, relic veneration, Buddhism and technology.
Guang Kuan is Research Fellow in Chinese Buddhism at Kings College, London. His principal 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 (Mount Wutai).
Hu Fo is Associate Director of the the Wutai Research Institute for Eastern Buddhist Culture , Shanxi, China. His main research interest is the cross-cultural transmission of the Wutai cult.
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