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By Professor Zhiru

ISBN-10: 0824830458

ISBN-13: 9780824830458

ISBN-10: 1435666232

ISBN-13: 9781435666238

In glossy chinese language Buddhism, Dizang is principally well known because the sovereign of the underworld. usually represented as a monk donning a royal crown, Dizang is helping the deceased devoted navigate the advanced underworld paperwork, ward off the punitive terrors of hell, and arrive on the satisfied realm of rebirth. the writer is worried with the formative interval of this significant Buddhist deity, earlier than his underworldly element eclipses his connections to different non secular expressions and at a time while the paintings, mythology, practices, and texts of his cult have been nonetheless replete with probabilities. She starts through problematizing the reigning version of Dizang, one who proposes an evolution of slow sinicization and lengthening vulgarization of a comparatively unknown Indian bodhisattva, Ksitigarbha, right into a chinese language deity of the underworld. the sort of version, the writer argues, obscures the many-faceted character and iconography of Dizang. Rejecting it, she deploys a extensive array of fabrics (art, epigraphy, ritual texts, scripture, and narrative literature) to recomplexify Dizang and fix (as a lot as attainable from the fragmented old resources) what this determine intended to chinese language Buddhists from the 6th to 10th centuries.

Rather than privilege anyone style of proof, the writer treats either fabric artifacts and literary works, canonical and noncanonical assets. Adopting an archaeological procedure, she excavates motifs from and unearths resonances throughout disparate genres to color a colourful, precise photo of the medieval Dizang cult. via her research, the cult, faraway from being an remoted phenomenon, is printed as integrally woven into the complete cloth of chinese language Buddhism, functioning as a kaleidoscopic lens encompassing a multivalent religio-cultural assimilation that resists the standard bifurcation of doctrine and perform or "elite" and "popular" religion.

The Making of a Savior Bodhisattva provides a desirable wealth of fabric at the character, iconography, and lore linked to the medieval Dizang. It elucidates the complicated cultural, spiritual, and social forces shaping the florescence of this savior cult in Tang China whereas at the same time addressing a number of broader theoretical concerns that experience preoccupied the sector. Zhiru not just questions using sinicization as a lens by which to view chinese language Buddhist historical past, she additionally brings either canonical and noncanonical literature into discussion with a physique of archaeological is still that has been neglected within the learn of East Asian Buddhism.

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Debauched, and deceitful. How [can one] turn the wheel of How [can one] turn the Buddha’s teachings and release them from wheel and liberate these all their flatteries? living beings? Afflictions are like possessing the How [can one] break the continuity vajra. How [can one] break them [of their actions] when their and cause them to depart? afflictions are like vajra? How [is one] able to maintain an How is one able to achieve endurance that can gently observances that result in such harmonize?

67. Wang-Toutain introduces her study as an investigation of the Bodhisattva Dizang as the “Teacher of the Desolate and Dark [Region]”—or, in other words, the savior of the damned (1998: 5–7). Problems and Perspectives 23 of Dizang in medieval China that explicitly addresses the implications of the richly varied expressions of Dizang worship and so reconsiders its role in Chinese Buddhism is thus imperative. The Dizang cult intersected not just with different forms of indigenous religion (religious Daoism, Confucianism, Chinese divinatory and shamanic practices), but also with diversified strands of Chinese Buddhism (esoteric Buddhism, Maitreya mythology, Pure Land, Sanjie jiao).

This degenerate world abounds Why in this buddha-land do in mockery and suspicion, delusions and evil harm the engaging in evil that harms pure and good? pure acts. And dwell together with those who engage in evil deeds? 22 correct Law? They revile the holy saints and They harm the saints, engender delusively attach [themselves] to negative views, and delusively nihilistic and eternalist views. expound nihilistic and eternalist theses. They commit the ten unsalutary They have committed the ten actions, not abhorring retributive unsalutary actions, not abhorring suffering in future lives.

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