Second Volume of “Hualin Series on Buddhist Studies”

Tones from the Stones:Production, Preservation and Perusal of Buddhist Epigraphy in Central and East Asia

Edited by Ru ZHAN, Jinhua CHEN, Yun JI
Series: Hualin Series on Buddhist Studies II
ISBN:978-9-81149-540-3
Publishing Date: 2020-12-20
Publisher: World Scholastic Publishers
Pages: 377
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Table of Contents

- Preface
- Foreword

Sacred Network Reflected on Stone

- 1.1. Imprinting the Living Rock with Buddhist Texts: On the Creation of a Regional Sacred Geography in Shandong in the Second Half of the Sixth Century
  Claudia Wenzel
- 1.2. A Study on the Images of Treasure Birds as Shown in the Transformation Tableaux of Western Pure Land Sūtras in Sichuan from the Tang and Five Dynasties
  Mingli Sun 孫明利
- 1.3. The ‘Daan Ta Beiming’ 大安塔碑銘 [Daan Pagoda Stele]: Religious and Sociopolitical Networks Woven around the Construction of a Song-dynasty Buddhist Pagoda
  Guodong Feng 馮國棟

Paper and Stone: Buddhist Manuscript and Epigraphical Culture

- 2.1. The Question of the Dating of Bingling Temple’s Cave 169, Niche 6 and its Connection to the Time of the Composition and Dissemination of Several Buddhist Scriptures
  Wei Zheng 韋正
- 2.2. On the Influence of the Longkan Shoujian 龍龕手鑒 as a Glossary on Dhāraṇī Carved in Stone (and on Metal Sheets) in the North Pagoda at Chaoyang and in Manuscripts from 12^th Century Japan
  George A. Keyworth
- 2.3. Against Epigraphy: Once More a Visit to Zen and History
  T. H. Barrett

Sacred and Secular Seen through Stone

- 3.1. ‘A Weeping King’: Glimpses into the Religious and Political Life of a Northern Liang Ruler, as Shed by his Stone-Buddha Project
  Tong Ling 童嶺
- 3.2. A Virtuoso Nun in the North: Situating the Earliest-Known Dated Biography of a Buddhist Nun in East Asia
  Stephanie Balkwill

- Author Biographies