Third Volume of “Famed Mountains and Great Monasteries” (English)

Third Volume of “Famed Mountains and Great Monasteries” (English)

Chinese Transformation of Buddhism & Crossborder Transmission of Buddhism

 

Editors: Jing YUE 淨月, Jinhua CHEN 陳金華, Song WANG 王頌
Series: Famed Mountains and Great Monasteries
ISBN: 978-981-18-4152-1
Date of Publication: 2022-04-15
Publisher: World Scholastic Publishers
Pages: 607
Format: Hardcover

 

Chinese Transformation of Buddhism & Crossborder Transmission of Buddhism: Pan-Asian Spread of Tiantai/Ch’ŏnt’ae/Tendai Texts, Ideas and Practices and Its Position in East Asian Society. Series on Famed Mountains and Great Monasteries III. Edited by Jing Yue 月淨, Jinhua Chen 陳金華, Song Wang 王頌, 2022.

This is Volume III of the FROGBEAR Series on Famed Mountains and Great Temples. Sacred space is an essential component of any religious tradition and especially significant for transcultural religions such as Buddhism. It is hard to exaggerate the importance of holy sites in Buddhist history. While the far-reaching and widespread significance of Buddhist sacred territories has attracted the attention of scholars from various disciplines, there remains much work to be done both on specific locales of practice and interpretative strategies for understanding sacred sites in medieval China generally. This book series proposes to fill this scholarly gap through the collaborative and in-depth studies of ‘famed mountains and great temples’ (mingshan dasi 名山大寺), territories of exceptional importance in China and, in many cases, throughout the whole of East Asia.

This volume collects 16 of the over 40 papers presented to the International Symposium of Tiantai Studies under the theme of ‘From Tiantai to Hiei: Transborder and Transcultural Spread of Tiantai/Chontae/Tendai Buddhism & East Asian Societies,’ held in the winter of December 2019 at Peking University, hosted by the Center for Buddhist Studies at Peking University 北京大學佛教研究中心, sponsored by the Cultural Exchange Center of Mount Tiantai 天台山文化交流中心 and co-organized by the UBC FROGBEAR project. The conference was arguably the single most important conference on Tiantai/Chontae/Tendai Buddhism since the Tendai Congress at Mount Hiei in 1997. It showcases some of the most remarkable work on the subject over the past few decades.

 

Table of Contents

Tiantai Text Culture: Bidirectional Circulation

    • 1.  T. H. Barrett
      A Short History of an Abbreviated Tang Tiantai Text
    • 2.  Yamaguchi Hiroe 山口弘江
      The Circulation and Reception of Tiantai Commentaries on the Vimalakīrti-sūtra in East Asia
    • 3.  George A. Keyworth
      The Amanosan Kongōji Edition of the Biography of Enchin by Miyoshi no Kiyoyuki: A Sacred Teachings (Shōgyō) Document that Chronicles the Reputation of Enchin and Miidera as the Penultimate Buddhist Temple in Medieval Japan

Doctrinal Reinterpretation

    • 4.  Hans-Rudolf Kantor
      Tiantai Doctrine in China: Practice qua Exegesis
    • 5.  Melinda Pap
      Zhanran’s Arguments in Support of His Buddha-nature Theory as Presented in His Diamond Scalpel Treatise: Starting from an Analysis of the Title
    • 6.  Li Zijie 李子捷
      The Relationship between the Dasheng Zhiguan Famen 大乘止觀法門 and the Ratnagotravibhāga 究竟一乘寶性論 Based on the Theories of Tathatā and Tathāgatagarbha
    • 7.  Ernest Billings Brewster
      Different Yet No Different: Chuandeng (1554–1627) on the Two Aspects of Thusness (Tathatā)

Crossborder Transmission

    • 8.  Bernard Faure
      From Tiantaishan to Hieizan: The View from the Keiran Shūyō Shū 渓嵐拾葉集
    • 9.  Lin Pei-ying 林佩瑩
      The Tendai Use of Official Documents in the Ninth Century: Revisiting the Case of Monk Daosui
    • 10.  Mónika Kiss
      Ennin’s Heritage: The Tendai Tradition of Fugen Enmei Bodhisattva
    • 11.  Richard D. Mcbride II
      The Memory of Ŭich’ŏn in Tiantai Histories of the Late Southern Song

Interactions with Other Buddhist Traditions

    • 12.  Zhan Ru 湛如
      The Merging of Tiantai and Vinaya: The Monks of Ximing Monastery and Mount Tiantai
    • 13. Kanno Hiroshi 菅野博史
      Zhiyi’s 智顗 (539–598) View on the Relationship between the Lotus Sūtra and the Nirvāṇa Sūtra: A Comparison with the View of Jizang 吉藏 (549–623)
    • 14. Ochiai Toshinori 落合俊典
      A Treasure-house of Tendai Manuscripts Stored at a Shingon Branch Center: Kongōji 金剛寺 of Amanosan 天野山
    • 15. Albert Welter
      Borderland Complexes and Translocations: How a Japanese Tendai Monk Discovered Chan/Zen Buddhism in an Indian Buddhist Homeland in the Hangzhou Region
    • 16. Sem Vermeersch
      Ch’ŏnt’ae after Ŭich’ŏn: The Formative Period of the Korean Ch’ŏnt’ae Order