Fifth Volume of “Hualin Series on Buddhist Studies”

Worldmaking in East Asian Buddhism

Edited by Jinhua CHEN and Eugene WANG
Series: Hualin Series on Buddhist Studies V
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-17276-4-1
Paperback ISBN: 978-981-17281-6-7
Publishing Date: 2022
Publisher: World Scholastic Publishers
Pages: 436

Table of Contents

Preface: Hualin Series on Buddhist Studies (by Ru Zhan)
Foreword: East Asian Buddhist Worldmaking (by Jinhua Chen)

1. Buddhist Worldviews and Worlds Viewed

- 1.1. The Moon as a Celestial Body and God in the Buddhist Worldview: From India to China
  Jeffrey KOTYK
- 1.2. Searching for a Bodhisattva Land on Earth: Potalaka Faith in East Asia
  Erika VÖRÖS
- 1.3. The Transmission of the Four- Pointed Cape Motif: From Gandhāra to the East and West
  LI Yicong 李怡淙
- 1.4. Conceptualization and ‘World- Making’: A Study on Prapañca as an Imprint in Yogācāra Treatises
  WANG Beier
- 1.5. Buddhist Worldmaking in the American Midcentury
  Sara LAWS

2. One Temple, One World

- 2.1. The Design of Ximing Monastery and Its Influence on Japanese Monasteries
  ZHAN Ru
- 2.2. The Gimbal-Mounted Xiangnang and Its Transmission to the Islamic World during the Yuan Dynasty
  HUANG Bing
- 2.3. Beetles and the Buddha: The Tamamushi Shrine, Smallpox, and Healing in Seventh-Century Japan
  Yingxue WANG
- 2.4. On Bonshakuji as the Penultimate Buddhist Temple to Protect the State in Early Japanese History
  George A. KEYWORTH

3. New Worlds Emerging from Religious Mergingse

- 3.1. Making Four Buddhist Worlds: A Reading of the Liturgies for Creating Ritual Spaces in Dunhuang Manuscripts
  CHEN Huaiyu
- 3.2. Śākyamuni Buddha World Depicted in Vimalakīrti Scenes in Dunhuang Mogao Caves: The Expansion of Buddha Land to China
  HAMADA Tamami
- 3.3. The Pure Land as a Place: Storytelling and Ritual Practice
  Barend J. TER HAAR
Author Biographies
Index