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Book SynopsisThe ERC-funded research project BuddhistRoad aims to create a new framework to enable understanding of the complexities in the dynamics of cultural encounter and religious transfer in pre-modern Eastern Central Asia. Buddhism was one major factor in this exchange: for the first time the multi-layered relationships between the trans-regional Buddhist traditions (Chinese, Indian, Tibetan) and those based on local Buddhist cultures (Khotanese, Uyghur, Tangut, Khitan) will be explored in a systematic way. The first volume Buddhism in Central Asia (Part I): Patronage, Legitimation, Sacred Space, and Pilgrimage is based on the start-up conference held on May 23rd–25th, 2018, at CERES, Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Germany) and focuses on the first two of altogether six thematic topics to be dealt with in the project, namely on “patronage and legitimation strategy” as well as “sacred space and pilgrimage.”
Table of ContentsContents Foreword Acknowledgments Illustrations and Tables Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction—Piety, Power, and Place in Central and East Asian Buddhism Carmen Meinert and Henrik H. Sørensen Part 1: Patronage and Legitimation 1 Who Is Legitimating Whom? On Justifying Buddhism’s Place in the Body Politic Sem Vermeersch 2 Images of Patronage in Khotan Erika Forte 3 Uyghur Royal Patronage and the Buddhist Legitimation Yukiyo Kasai 4 Donors and Esoteric Buddhism in Dunhuang during the Reign of the Guiyijun Henrik H. Sørensen 5 The Formation of Tangut Ideology: Buddhism and Confucianism Kirill Solonin Part 2: Sacred Space and Pilgrimage 6 From Padmasambhava to Gö Tsangpa: Rethinking Religious Patronage in the Indian Himalayas between the 8th and 13th Centuries Verena Widorn 7 Sacred Space in Uyghur Buddhism Jens Wilkens 8 Pilgrims in Old Uyghur Inscriptions: A Glimpse behind Their Records Simone-Christiane Raschmann 9 Looking from the Periphery: Some Additional Thoughts on Yulin Cave Max Deeg 10 Creation of Tantric Sacred Spaces in Eastern Central Asia Carmen Meinert Bibliography Index
