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ISBN: 0691029415 0691037582 9780691029412 0691219567 Year: 2000 Publisher: Princeton: Princeton university press,
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Bernard Faure's previous works are well known as guides to some of the more elusive aspects of the Chinese tradition of Chan Buddhism and its outgrowth, Japanese Zen. Continuing his efforts to look at Chan/Zen with a full array of postmodernist critical techniques, Faure now probes the 'imaginaire,' or mental universe, of the Buddhist Soto Zen master Keizan Jokin (1268-1325). Although Faure's new book may be read at one level as an intellectual biography, Keizan is portrayed here less as an original thinker than as a representative of his culture and an example of the paradoxes of the Soto school. The Chan/Zen doctrine that he avowed was allegedly reasonable and demythologizing, but he lived in a psychological world that was just as imbued with the marvelous as was that of his contemporary Dante Alighieri.Drawing on his own dreams to demonstrate that he possessed the magical authority that he felt to reside also in icons and relics, Keizan strove to use these "visions of power" to buttress his influence as a patriarch. To reveal the historical, institutional, ritual, and visionary elements in Keizan's life and thought and to compare these to Soto doctrine, Faure draws on largely neglected texts, particularly the 'Record of Tokoku' (a chronicle that begins with Keizan's account of the origins of the first of the monasteries that he established) and the 'kirigami', or secret initiation documents.
Buddhist art and symbolism --- Keizan, --- Sōtōshū --- Rituals. --- Symbolisme bouddhique --- Bouddhisme Zen --- Histoire --- Symbolisme bouddhique - Japon. --- Bouddhisme Zen - Japon - Histoire
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The first scholarly monograph on Buddhist maṇḍalas in China, this book examines the Maṇḍala of Eight Great Bodhisattvas. This iconographic template, in which a central Buddha is flanked by eight attendants, flourished during the Tibetan (786–848) and post-Tibetan Guiyijun (848–1036) periods at Dunhuang. A rare motif that appears in only four cave shrines at the Mogao and Yulin sites, the maṇḍala bore associations with political authority and received patronage from local rulers. Attending to the historical and cultural contexts surrounding this iconography, this book demonstrates that transcultural communication over the Silk Routes during this period, and the religious dialogue between the Chinese and Tibetan communities, were defining characteristics of the visual language of Buddhist maṇḍalas at Dunhuang.
Eight Great Bodhisattvas (Buddhist deities) in art. --- Buddhist art and symbolism --- Mandala (Buddhism) --- Dunhuang (China) --- Tibet Region --- Civilization. --- Art bouddhique --- Bodhisattva --- Buddhist art and symbolism. --- Buddhistische Kunst. --- Mandala (Buddhism). --- Mandala --- Mandalas --- Symbolisme bouddhique --- Bouddha, --- Buddha, --- China --- Dunhuang (Chine) --- Dunhuang. --- Mogaogrotten --- Tibet (Chine). --- Grottes de Mogao.
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