Buddhist encounters and identities across East Asia / / edited by Ann Heirman, Carmen Meinert, Christoph Anderl.

• TeilnehmendeR: Heirman, Ann.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2018.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Dynamics in the History of Religions 10.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

Encounters, networks, identities and diversity are at the core of the history of Buddhism. They are also the focus of Buddhist Encounters and Identities across East Asia , edited by Ann Heirman, Carmen Meinert and Christoph Anderl. While long-distance networks allowed Buddhist ideas to travel to all parts of East Asia, it was through local and trans-local networks and encounters, and a diversity of people and societies, that identities were made and negotiated. This book undertakes a detailed examination of discrete Buddhist identities rooted in unique cultural practices, beliefs and indigenous socio-political conditions. Moreover, it presents a fascinating picture of the intricacies of the regional and cross-regional networks that connected South and East Asia.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Acknowledgments -- List of Illustrations -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Networks and Identities in the Buddhist World / Tansen Sen -- Translocal Networks -- Bagan Murals and the Sino-Tibetan World / Claudine Bautze-Picron -- Noise along the Network: A Set of Chinese Ming Embroidered Thangkas in the Indian Himalayas / Rob Linrothe -- Nation Founder and Universal Saviour: Guanyin and Buddhist Networks in the Nanzhao and Dali Kingdoms / Megan Bryson -- A Study on the Combination of the Deities Fudō and Aizen in Medieval Shingon Esoteric Buddhism / Steven Trenson -- The Transmission of the Buddhadharma from India to China: An Examination of Kumārajīva’s Transliteration of the Dhāraṇīs of the Saddharmapuṇḍarīkasūtra / Bryan Levman -- The Journey of Zhao Xian and the Exile of Royal Descendants in the Yuan Dynasty (1271–1368)1 / Kaiqi Hua -- Negotiating and Constructing Identities -- Wailing for Identity: Topical and Poetic Expressions of Cultural Belonging in Chinese Buddhist Literature / Max Deeg -- How the Dharma Ended Up in the “Eastern Country”: Korean Monks in the Chinese Buddhist Imaginaire during the Tang and Early Song / Sem Vermeersch -- Buddhist Pilgrimage and Spiritual Identity: Korean Sŏn Monks Journeying to Tang China in Search of the Dharma / Henrik H. Sørensen -- The Rebirth Legend of Prince Shōtoku: Buddhist Networks in Ninth Century China and Japan / Pei-ying Lin -- Because They Entrusted to Them a Part of Their Buddhist Selves—Imagined Communities, Layered Identities, and Networking / Bart Dessein -- Bodily Care Identity in Buddhist Monastic Life of Ancient India and China: An Advancing Purity Threshold / Ann Heirman -- Back Matter -- Bibliography -- Index.