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Book SynopsisThe Transnational Cult of Mount Wutai explores the pan-East Asian significance of sacred Mount Wutai from the Northern Dynasties to the present day. Offering novel readings of comparatively familiar visual and textual sources and, in many cases, examining unstudied or understudied noncanonical materials, the papers collected here illuminate the roles that both local actors and individuals dwelling far beyond Mount Wutai’s borders have played in its making and remaking as a holy place for more than fifteen hundred years. The work aims to contribute to our understanding of the ways that sacred geography is made and remade in new places and times.
Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements Figures and Tables Introduction Susan Andrews and Chen Jinhua Part 1: Court Patronage and State Control 1 From Mount Wutai to the Seven Jewel Tower: Monk Degan and Political Propaganda of the Wuzhou Period Yinggang Sun 2 Faith and Realpolitik: Tang Dynasty Esoteric Buddhism at Mount Wutai Geoffrey Goble 3 Monastic Officials on Wutai Shan under the Ming dynasty Kuan Guang 4 Beyond Seeking for Sacredness: Shedding New Light on the Carving of the Jiaxing Canon on Mount Wutai Dewei Zhang Part 2: Pilgrims and Sacred Sites 5 A Japanese Pilgrim’s Visit to Wutai in the Winter of Robert Borgen 6 The Pilgrimage Account of Duke Miγvačir of Alaša to Mount Wutai in Isabelle Charleux 7 Visions in Translation: A Qing-Gelukpa Guidebook to Mount Wutai Wen-shing Chou 8 Mount Wutai and Mañjuśrī in Old Uigur Buddhism Peter Zieme 9 How Important is Mount Wutai? Sacred Space in a Zen Mirror T.H. Barrett Part 3: Changing Practices at Mount Wutai 10 Lama Nenghai’s imprint on Mount Wutai: Sino-Tibetan Buddhism among the Five Plateaus since the 1930s Ester Bianchi 11 The Pure Land Teachings of Fazhao and the Mañjuśrī Cult of Mount Wutai Sheng Kai 12 Fazhao Jin Bifeng, and Constructed Histories of Buddhist Chant and Music at Mount Wutai Beth Szczepanski Part 4: Replicating Mount Wutai 13 The Legacy of the True Visage: The Mañjuśrī Statues at Zhenrong yuan and Shuxiang si of Mount Wutai Sun-ah Choi 14 Khotan and Mount Wutai: The significance of Central Asian actors in the making of the mountain cult Imre Hamar 15 Transnational Mountain Cult, Local Religiopolitical and Economic Concerns: Mount Wutai and the Kamakura period miracle tales of Tōnomine Susan Andrews 16 The Emergence of the “Five-Terrace Mountain” Cult in Korea Sangyop Lee 17 Flying Mañjuśrī and Moving Mount Wutai Towards the Xi Xia Period: As Seen from Dunhuang Caves Wei-Cheng Lin Index
