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dc.contributor.advisor | Shinohara, Koichi | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Andrews, Susan | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-06-18T17:05:12Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2014-06-18T17:05:12Z | - |
dc.date.created | 2013-12-06 | en_US |
dc.date.issued | 2004-08 | en_US |
dc.identifier.other | opendissertations/8601 | en_US |
dc.identifier.other | 9671 | en_US |
dc.identifier.other | 4893399 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11375/13774 | - |
dc.description.abstract | <p>In the Tang Dynasty (618-906) Mount Wutai emerged as the foremost sacred place in China. Scholars such as Birnbaum (1984, 1986) and Stevenson (1996) have attributed its development as a sacred site in this period to assertions made in contemporaneous Buddhist literature that a prominent bodhisattva appeared there. It was in this context, the argument follows, that the vision-tales discussed in this thesis-recounting the meeting of pilgrims to the holy mountain with MaiijusrT-played an instrumental role in establishing Wutai as a sacred center. This thesis will demonstrate that although MaiijusrI's alleged manifestations contributed to Mount Wutai's eminence, this was not the sole grounds on which its holy status was asserted. The paper will show that there were multiple ways in which scriptural and story literature framed the fiveterraced mountain as a holy Buddhist site. Mount Wutai was alleged to be a place of particular numinousness not only because it was a place where MaiijusrT entered the human realm, but also because it was a site where humans had exited the temporal and spatial realm and entered into manifestation monasteries. By examining four Guang Qingliang Zhuan narratives which frame the mountain's holiness in this way-the record of the monk: Wuzhuo's entry into the Banruo Si (T51 1111b24-1112c), Shenying's entry into the manifested Fahua Yuan (T51 1112c 17-1113 a 14), the record of the monk: Daoyi' s entry into the manifested Jinge Si (T51: II13aI5-1114a5) and the record of the monk: Fazhao's entry into the manifested Zhulin Si (T51: 1114a6-1116a22)-the thesis demonstrates that the terms on which Mount Wutai' s sacred status was created is even more nuanced than much of contemporary scholarship would suggest.</p> | en_US |
dc.subject | religion | en_US |
dc.subject | Religion | en_US |
dc.subject | Religion | en_US |
dc.title | Seeking the Vision of MafijusrI at Mount Wutai | en_US |
dc.type | thesis | en_US |
dc.contributor.department | Religious Studies | en_US |
dc.description.degree | Master of Arts (MA) | en_US |
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