What Happened After Manjusri Migrated to China? : The Sinification of the Manjusri Faith and the Globalization of the Wutai Cult (Hardcover)

Foreword Miaojiang Shi 釋妙江 The Transmission of Wutai Cult from South Asia to China 1. A chemical ‘explosion’ triggered by an encounter between Indian and Chinese medical sciences: another look at the significances of the Sinhalese Monk ??kyamitra’s (567??668+) visit at Mount Wutai in 667 Jinhua Chen 2. Fazang’s theory of zhenru ?如 (Skt. tathat?) and zhongxing 種姓 (Skt. gotra): with a focus on the influence of the Ratnagotravibh?ga Zijie Li 3. Gathering medicines among the cypress: the relationship between healing and place in the earliest records of Mount Wutai Susan Andrews The Spread of the Wutai Cult in China: Center and Margins 4. A study on a stone lantern from Dongzhang village in medieval China Huaiyu Chen 5. Northern Wei Wutaishan: an outside view of centres and peripheries T. H. Barrett 6. How the Mount Wutai cult stimulated the development of Chinese Chan in southern China at Qingliang monasteries George A. Keyworth 7. The way of the Nine Palaces (jiugong dao 九宮道): a lay Buddhist movement Barend J. ter Haar The Wutai Cult in Japan 8. Moving monks and mountains: Ch?gen and the cults of Gy?ki, Manju?r?, and Wutai David Quinter 9. Decentering Manju?r?: some aspects of Manju?r?’s cult in medieval Japan Bernard Faure 10. Representations of the Wutai Mountains in classical Japanese literature Robert Borgen The Wutai Cult in Tibet, Mongolia, Khotan and Korea 11. Tibeto-Mongol Buddhist architecture and iconography on Wutaishan, seventeenth to early twentieth centuries Isabelle Charleux 12. A visit of Christian missionaries at Mount Wutai: Mongol Buddhism from a cross-cultural perspective Temur Temule 13. The Manju?r? cult in Khotan Imre Hamar 14. Ennin’s (793?864) Sillan connections on his journey to Mt. Wutai: a fresh look at Ennin’s travel record Pei-ying Lin