A Buddhist Bhairava?: Kṛtanagara’s Tantric Buddhism in Transregional Perspective

This article discusses some key aspects of the historical and religious background of the period of Kṛtanagara and his aftermath in East Java and Sumatra. Our analysis is based on a comparative study of Sanskrit, Old Javanese, and Tibetan textual sources and artistic vestiges ("medias") to...

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VerfasserInnen: Acri, Andrea 1981- (VerfasserIn) ; Wenta, Aleksandra (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Ruhr-Universität Bochum 2022
In: Entangled Religions
Jahr: 2022, Band: 13, Heft: 7
normierte Schlagwort(-folgen):B Kertanagara, Singhasari, König -1292 / Singhasari / Statue / Religionspolitik / Vajrayāna / Hinduismus / Außenpolitik
RelBib Classification:AD Religionssoziologie; Religionspolitik
AF Religionsgeographie
AG Religiöses Leben; materielle Religion
AX Interreligiöse Beziehungen
BK Hinduismus, Jainismus, Sikhismus
BL Buddhismus
KBM Asien
RA Praktische Theologie
TE Mittelalter
weitere Schlagwörter:B Bhairava
B Kṛtanagara
B Tantric Buddhism
B Ādityavarman
B Mañjuśrī
B Kublai Khan
B Gur gyi mgon po
B Pañjaranātha Mahākāla
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Zusammenfassung:This article discusses some key aspects of the historical and religious background of the period of Kṛtanagara and his aftermath in East Java and Sumatra. Our analysis is based on a comparative study of Sanskrit, Old Javanese, and Tibetan textual sources and artistic vestiges ("medias") to highlight the transregional networks of tantric Buddhism ("traditions") that may have contributed to shape the king’s religio-political agenda. Having identified the enigmatic colossal statue at Padang Roco/Sungai Langsat in Dharmasraya (Central-Western Sumatra) as a Mahākāla bearing Śaiva iconographic contaminations, and as a product of Siṅhasāri-period East Java from Sino-Tibetan prototypes, we revive Moens’ (1924: 557) idea of an association between the icon and Kṛtanagara. Adding to the discussion on the Eastern Indian-style icon of Arapacana Mañjuśrī found near Candi Jago, we highlight further parallels that complement and fine-tune the idea advanced by previous scholars about the commonality of the tantric Buddhist paradigms practiced at the courts of Kṛtanagara and Kublai Khan, and propose that their legacy was adopted by the political elites of the subsequent generation in both Nusantara and China.
ISSN:2363-6696
Enthält:Enthalten in: Entangled Religions
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.46586/er.13.2022.9653