Disciplinary Rituals in Dunhuang Buddhism

Ru Zhan (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

764 Seiten

2023
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-51407-2 (ISBN)

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Combining meticulous analysis with macroscopic interpretation, this book pioneers in studying the Sinicizing process of Buddhist disciplinary rituals as they spread from India to China in the medieval period.

Drawing on Dunhuang manuscripts and the latest scholarship in Dunhuang and Buddhist Studies, this translation analyzes Buddhist monasticism via such topics as the organizational forms of Dunhuang Buddhist monasteries, the construction and operation of ordination platforms, ordination certificates and government ordination licenses, and meditation retreats, etc.

Assuming a pan-Asian perspective, the monograph also made trailblazing contributions to the study of Buddhist Sinicization and Sino-Indian cultural exchanges and is bound to exert long-lasting influences on the worldwide academic study of Buddhism.

Zhan Ru is a Professor in Peking University’s School of Foreign Languages and vice president of the Peking University Orientalism Research Institute. His areas of research include Buddhist and Buddhist literature, the Indian Ministry of Buddhism, Dunhuang Buddhism, and the Buddhist system.

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Conventions

1 Introduction

1.1 History of Indian Buddhist Vinaya Studies

1.2 History of Chinese Buddhist Vinaya Studies

1.3 A History of the Studies of the Disciplinary Rituals of Dunhuang Buddhism

2 The Organization and Character of Dunhuang’s Buddhist Temples, Meditation Caves, and Araṇya

2.1 Preamble

2.2 Early Monastic Regulations in China

2.3 Administrators (Gangguan 綱管) of Dunhuang Monasteries

2.4 The Organizational Structure of the Three Meditation Caves

2.5 The Principle of Dhūta (Austerities) and Its Social Function Reflected in Dunhuang’s Araṇya

2.6 Characteristics of Dunhuang’s Buddhist Temples

3 Evolution of the Ordination Platform and Dunhuang’s Fangdeng Daochang 方等道場 (Vaipulya Ordination Platform)

3.1 Preamble

3.2 The Origins and Formation of the Ordination Platform

3.3 Transformation of the Ordination Platform

3.4 Dunhuang’s Fangdeng Ordination Platforms and Lintan Dade 臨壇大德 (Ordination Platform Presiders of Great Virtue)

3.5 Concluding Remarks

4 Research on Dunhuang’s Precept Certificates, Rites for Conferring Precepts, and Ordination Licenses

4.1 Preamble

4.2 The Contents of the Baguan Zhai 八關齋 (Eightfold Purificatory Observance) and Their Receipt and Upholding

4.3 Protocols for the Rites of Conferral and Receipt of the Baguan Zhai

4.4 The Composition and Characteristics of Dunhuang’s Baguan Zhai Certificates

4.5 Translation and Circulation of Scriptures on the Bodhisattva Precepts

4.6 Ritual Procedures for the Conferring and Receiving of Bodhisattva Precepts

4.7 Certificates for Bodhisattva Precepts

4.8 Ordination Licenses

5 A New Investigation of Upavasatha Texts and Upavasatha Procedures

5.1 Origins

5.2 Prātimokṣa and Upavasatha in Sectarian Buddhism

5.3 Upavasatha Texts and Upavasatha Procedures in Dunhuang Buddhism

5.4 Concluding Remarks

6 Examination of the Dunhuang Summer Retreat

6.1 Preamble

6.2 The Vinaya Piṭaka ‘Retreat Khandhaka’ and the Form of Retreat in Early Buddhism

6.3 Summer Retreat and Winter Retreat in Dunhuang Buddhism

6.4 Concluding Remarks

7 Stotra (Hymns) in Pure Land Teachings at Dunhuang

7.1 Zanwen 讚文 (Extolment), Jizan 偈讚 (Extol Verse) and the Pure Land Extolment Texts

7.2 Research on Extolment Verses of Pure Land Teachings

7.3 Concluding Remarks

8 Analysis of Dunhuang Zhaiwen, Zhai Gatherings, and Dharma Gatherings

8.1 Presenting the Problematic

8.2 The Origins and Evolution of Zhai 齋

8.3 Zhai Gatherings and Folk Beliefs in the Tang and Five Dynasties

8.4 Dunhuang Zhaiwen

8.5 Zhai Wanwen 齋琬文 (Zhai Model Texts) and Buddhist Procedures

8.6 Zhai Gatherings in Dunhuang

8.7 Dunhuang Zhai Gatherings and Folk Beliefs

8.8 Dunhuang Wuzhe (Non-Obstructing) Great Gatherings

9 General Conclusion

9.1 Features of Dunhuang Buddhist Communities

9.2 Disciplinary Rituals and the State Control

9.3 Multi-Facetted Beliefs about the Pure Land in Dunhuang

9.4 Formation of Dunhuang Buddhist Rituals

Appendix 1: Translations of Dunhuang Manuscripts and Inscriptions

Appendix 2: Charts and Lists

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	19.08.2022
Reihe/Serie	Studies on East Asian Religions ; 7
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	1427 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus
ISBN-10	90-04-51407-4 / 9004514074
ISBN-13	978-90-04-51407-2 / 9789004514072
Zustand	Neuware