Buddhism in Central Asia I

Patronage, Legitimation, Sacred Space, and Pilgrimage

Carmen Meinert, Henrik Sørensen (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2020
Brill (Verlag)
9789004415621 (ISBN)

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Buddhism in Central Asia (Part I): Patronage, Legitimation, Sacred Space, and Pilgrimage, 6-14th Centuries deals with the various strategies of legitimation and the establishment of sacred space and pilgrimage among both trans-regional (Chinese, Indian, Tibetan) and local (Khotanese, Uyghur, Tangut, Kitan) Buddhist traditions.

The ERC-funded research project BuddhistRoad aims to create a new framework to enable understanding of the complexities in the dynamics of cultural encounter and religious transfer in pre-modern Eastern Central Asia. Buddhism was one major factor in this exchange: for the first time the multi-layered relationships between the trans-regional Buddhist traditions (Chinese, Indian, Tibetan) and those based on local Buddhist cultures (Khotanese, Uyghur, Tangut, Khitan) will be explored in a systematic way. The first volume Buddhism in Central Asia (Part I): Patronage, Legitimation, Sacred Space, and Pilgrimage is based on the start-up conference held on May 23rd–25th, 2018, at CERES, Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Germany) and focuses on the first two of altogether six thematic topics to be dealt with in the project, namely on “patronage and legitimation strategy” as well as "sacred space and pilgrimage."

Carmen Meinert is Professor for Central Asian Religions and Principal Investigator of the ERC project BuddhistRoad at CERES, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany. Her recent publications include Buddhist Encounters and Identities across East Asia (co-edited with Ann Heirman and Christoph Anderl) (Leiden: Brill, 2018). Henrik H. Sørensen is the Research Coordinator of the ERC project BuddhistRoad at CERES, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany. His recent publications include "Buddhist Pilgrimage and Spiritual Identity: Korean Sŏn Monks Journeying to Tang China in Search of the Dharma" in: Buddhist Encounters and Identities Across East Asia, ed. Ann Heirman, Carmen Meinert, and Christoph Anderl (Leiden: Brill, 2018).

Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Illustrations and Tables

Abbreviations

Notes on Contributors

Introduction—Piety, Power, and Place in Central and East Asian Buddhism

Carmen Meinert and Henrik H. Sørensen

Part 1: Patronage and Legitimation

1 Who Is Legitimating Whom? On Justifying Buddhism’s Place in the Body Politic

Sem Vermeersch

2 Images of Patronage in Khotan

Erika Forte

3 Uyghur Royal Patronage and the Buddhist Legitimation

Yukiyo Kasai

4 Donors and Esoteric Buddhism in Dunhuang during the Reign of the Guiyijun

Henrik H. Sørensen

5 The Formation of Tangut Ideology: Buddhism and Confucianism

Kirill Solonin

Part 2: Sacred Space and Pilgrimage

6 From Padmasambhava to Gö Tsangpa: Rethinking Religious Patronage in the Indian Himalayas between the 8th and 13th Centuries

Verena Widorn

7 Sacred Space in Uyghur Buddhism

Jens Wilkens

8 Pilgrims in Old Uyghur Inscriptions: A Glimpse behind Their Records

Simone-Christiane Raschmann

9 Looking from the Periphery: Some Additional Thoughts on Yulin
Cave

Max Deeg

10 Creation of Tantric Sacred Spaces in Eastern Central Asia

Carmen Meinert

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	27.01.2020
Reihe/Serie	Dynamics in the History of Religions ; 11
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	670 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus
ISBN-13	9789004415621 / 9789004415621
Zustand	Neuware