Buddhist encounters and identities across East Asia
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Buddhist encounters and identities across East Asia
(Dynamics in the history of religions / editors-in-chief, Volkhard Krech, Marion Steinicke ; advisory board, Jan Assmann ... [et al.], v. 10)
Brill, c2018
- : hardback
Available at 3 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [371]-415) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Encounters, networks, identities and diversity are at the core of the history of Buddhism. They are also the focus of Buddhist Encounters and Identities across East Asia, edited by Ann Heirman, Carmen Meinert and Christoph Anderl. While long-distance networks allowed Buddhist ideas to travel to all parts of East Asia, it was through local and trans-local networks and encounters, and a diversity of people and societies, that identities were made and negotiated. This book undertakes a detailed examination of discrete Buddhist identities rooted in unique cultural practices, beliefs and indigenous socio-political conditions. Moreover, it presents a fascinating picture of the intricacies of the regional and cross-regional networks that connected South and East Asia.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations VIII
List of Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Networks and Identities in the Buddhist World
Tansen Sen
Part 1: Translocal Networks
1 Bagan Murals and the Sino-Tibetan World
Claudine Bautze-Picron
2 Noise along the Network: A Set of Chinese Ming Embroidered Thangkas in the Indian Himalayas
Rob Linrothe
3 Nation Founder and Universal Saviour: Guanyin and Buddhist Networks in the Nanzhao and Dali Kingdoms
Megan Bryson
4 A Study on the Combination of the Deities Fudo and Aizen in Medieval Shingon Esoteric Buddhism
Steven Trenson
5 The Transmission of the Buddhadharma from India to China: An Examination of Kumarajiva's Transliteration of the Dharanis of the Saddharmapundarikasutra
Bryan Levman
6 The Journey of Zhao Xian and the Exile of Royal Descendants in the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368)
Kaiqi Hua
Part 2: Negotiating and Constructing Identities
7 Wailing for Identity: Topical and Poetic Expressions of Cultural Belonging in Chinese Buddhist Literature
Max Deeg
8 How the Dharma Ended up in the "Eastern Country": Korean Monks in the Chinese Buddhist Imaginaire during the Tang and Early Song
Sem Vermeersch
9 Buddhist Pilgrimage and Spiritual Identity: Korean Son Monks Journeying to Tang China in Search of the Dharma
Henrik H. Sorensen
10 The Rebirth Legend of Prince Shotoku: Buddhist Networks in Ninth Century China and Japan
Pei-Ying Lin
11 Because They Entrusted to Them a Part of Their Buddhist Selves-Imagined Communities, Layered Identities, and Networking
Bart Dessein
12 Bodily Care Identity in Buddhist Monastic Life of Ancient India and China: An Advancing Purity
Threshold
Ann Heirman
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