Author(s): Zhiru
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 329
Contents
......Page 8
Figures......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 12
Abbreviations......Page 14
Introduction: Problems and Perspectives......Page 16
Part 1: Early Images: The Bodhisattva of This Defiled World......Page 42
The Scripture on the Ten Wheels......Page 44
The Section on the Sumeru Treasury......Page 51
The Intellectual and Socio-Political Climate......Page 56
2. Cultic Beginnings Reconsidered......Page 65
Buddhist Records of Dizang Worship......Page 67
The Sanjit Jiao Connection......Page 70
The Work of the Translator and Exegete Sinbang......Page 76
Icons of Dizng and the Six Paths in Shaanxi Art......Page 83
Rethinking the Early Dissemination of Dizang Worship......Page 90
Part 2: Multiple Images: This World, Hell, and Pure Land......Page 94
3. Indigenous and Accretionary Scriptures......Page 96
The Scripture on Divination: From Karmic Divination to Philosophical Mediation......Page 99
The Exorcism Method: A Buddho-Daoist Formula for Demonology......Page 104
A Ritual Manual on the Bodhisattva Dizang: Dizang in Esoteric Rites......Page 112
The Scripture on the Bodhisattva Dizang: From Hell to Pure Land......Page 116
The Scripture on the Past Vows: A Canonization of Filial Piety and Afterlife Practices......Page 122
New Scriptures, New Images of Dizang......Page 130
4. Art and Epigraphy......Page 133
A Princely Householder or Monk Bodhisattva?......Page 135
Dizang and Guanyin as Saviors of This World......Page 140
From Amitabha Triads to Rebirth in the Pure Land......Page 150
Glimpses of a Bhaisajyaguru Connection?......Page 157
A Ray of Light in the Ten Kings' Dark Courts......Page 165
Guiding the Way in the Afterlife: The Bodhisattva Yinlu......Page 173
Images of Dizang in Esoteric Buddhist Practices......Page 175
Forgotten Images in Religious Artifacts......Page 180
5. Narative Literature......Page 182
The Earliest Dizang Miracle Tale......Page 184
Non-Buddhist Records......Page 187
A Buddhist Compilation of Dizang Miracle Tales......Page 192
The Canonization of a Buddhist Cult......Page 209
Conclusion......Page 212
Appendix 1: The Scripture on the Ten Wheels: Reevaluating the Traditional Dating......Page 240
Appendix 2: Antecedents of Dizang? Ksitigarbha in India and Central Asia......Page 244
The Exocism Method of Dizang's Aspiration Toward Great Awakening......Page 256
A Ritual Manual on the Bodhisattva Dizang......Page 268
Scripture on th Bodhisattva Dizang......Page 273
Works Cited......Page 274
Index......Page 310
