Visualising Oneself as the Cosmos: An Esoteric Buddhist Meditation Text from Dunhuang
This chapter focuses on a manuscript from the Pelliot Collection featuring an Esoteric Buddhist meditation text from Dunhuang (P. 2649Vº, S. 6897Vº), the significance of which has, to some degree, been overlooked by current scholarship. The manuscript is undated, and the text itself does not have a...
| Published in: | Dynamics in the history of religions |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2022
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Dynamics in the history of religions
Year: 2022, Volume: 12, Pages: 288-312 |
| Further subjects: | B
Altaische & Ostasiatische Sprachen
B Asia B Sprache und Linguistik B Allgemein B Asien-Studien B Art history B Religionswissenschaften B Uralische B Ostasiatische Geschichte B History |
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| Summary: | This chapter focuses on a manuscript from the Pelliot Collection featuring an Esoteric Buddhist meditation text from Dunhuang (P. 2649Vº, S. 6897Vº), the significance of which has, to some degree, been overlooked by current scholarship. The manuscript is undated, and the text itself does not have a title, which complicates an assessment of it and its context. However, its detailed and vivid instructions in meditation indicate it is a text that conveys mainstream Esoteric Buddhist beliefs and practices. Of great interest to the author is the fact that the entire process of meditation and visualisation is expressed as a sort of internal ritual of universal salvation. A fully annotated translation of the text is provided, as well as a critical edition of the Chinese text. |
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/9789004508446_011 |