TY - BOOK ID - 129352056 TI - Embodying Xuanzang: The Postmortem Travels of a Buddhist Pilgrim PY - 2023 SN - 9780824895655 0824895657 9780824894900 0824894901 0824896378 PB - University of Hawai'i DB - UniCat KW - Asian history. KW - Asiatische Geschichte. KW - Bouddhisme KW - Buddhism KW - Buddhism. KW - Buddhismus. KW - Buddhist legends KW - Buddhist legends. KW - HISTORY / Asia / General. KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / General. KW - Literary studies: general. KW - Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein. KW - Légendes bouddhiques KW - RELIGION / Buddhism / General (see also PHILOSOPHY / Buddhist). KW - Rituel KW - Rituals KW - Rituals. KW - Xuanzang, KW - Wu, Cheng'en, KW - Legends. KW - Criticism and interpretation. KW - Xi you ji (Wu, Cheng'en). KW - China. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:129352056 AB - "Xuanzang (600/602-664) was one of the most accomplished and consequential monks in the history of East Asian Buddhism. Celebrated for his sixteen-year pilgrimage from China to India, his transmission and translation of hundreds of Buddhist texts, and his training of a generation of masters in China, Korea, and Japan, Xuanzang's life and legacy are the stuff of legend. In the centuries after his death, stories of his epic adventures and extraordinary accomplishments circulated in texts, images, songs, and plays. These mythic accounts recast the erudite pilgrim, translator, and court cleric as a magical monk who traveled not between China and India but between heaven and earth. Beset by bloodthirsty demons, this deified version of Xuanzang navigates the perilous paths of the netherworld to reach a pure land in the west. His purpose is to acquire a cache of sacred scriptures with the power to safeguard the living and deliver the dead. Along the way, he is guided and protected by a mischievous monkey, a lazy pig, a demonic monk, and a dragon horse. This imaginative and compelling tale received its fullest and most influential treatment in the famous sixteenth-century novel Journey to the West. In this engaging exploration of the confluence of myth, narrative, and ritual, Benjamin Brose uncovers the hidden histories of Xuanzang's many afterlives. Beginning in the eleventh century and continuing to the present day, devotees have summoned Xuanzang and his band of misfit pilgrims to perform exorcisms, guide the spirits of the dead, and possess the bodies of insurgents. Embodying Xuanzang traces the postmortem travels of China's greatest pilgrim and reveals the narrative and performative roots of China's best-known novel" ER -