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The Ritual of the Buddhoṣṇīṣa Vijaya Dhāraṇī Maṇḍala |
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Shinohara, Koichi (著)
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Hualin International Journal of Buddhist Studies
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| Volume | v.1 n.2 Special Issue: Buddhist Arts |
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| Date | 2018.10 |
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| Pages | 143 - 182 |
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| Publisher | Cambria Press |
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http://www.cambriapress.com/
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| Location | New York, US [紐約州, 美國] |
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| Content type | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Note | Author Affiliations: Yale University |
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| Abstract | In this paper I examine the practice of visualizing maṇḍalas, focusing on one specific example, the maṇḍala called Buddhoṣṇīṣa vijaya (Zunsheng foding 尊勝佛頂). The introduction of visualization practice profoundly transformed Esoteric Buddhist ritual practice. It made physical images redundant, but ironically it also turned maṇḍalas, originally ritual spaces marked on the ground, into images of deities and objects of visualization in and of themselves.
I trace this development by looking at the rituals for the cult of the deity Buddhoṣnīṣa Vijaya. In the Dhāraṇī Sūtra for Buddhoṣṇīṣa Vijaya (T no. 967–971; 974A) a maṇḍala is constructed on the ground, at which the practitioner recites the dhāraṇī. One version mentions the vision of the Buddhas arriving and praising the practitioner, but no instruction for deliberate visualization is given in the sūtras. The Recitation Manual for Buddhoṣṇīṣa Vijaya Dhāraṇī (T no. 972) attributed to Amoghavajra’s translation contains instructions for constructing a maṇḍala on the ground as well as instructions for visualizing the maṇḍala. The Manual for Buddhoṣṇīṣa Vijaya Yoga Practice (T no. 973) attributed to Śubhākarasiṃha first offers a brief instruction for visualizing the maṇḍala and then a separate instruction for painting the central deity’s image. Together these two manuals illustrate how the maṇḍala constructed on the ground gradually became an immaterial visualized representation. |
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| Table of contents | Introduction 144
1. Recitation of Spells Without Images 145
2. Recitation of Spells in Front of Images 145
3. Maṇḍala Initiation Ceremony for a Class of Ritual Specialists 145
4. Visualization Practices 146
Maṇḍala Ritual 147
1. The maṇḍala in the Dhāraṇī Sūtra for Buddhoṣṇīṣa Vijaya 148
2. Amoghavajra’s translation of the Recitation Manual for
Buddhoṣṇīṣa Vijaya Dhāraṇī (T no. 972) 149
3. Śubhākarasiṃha’s Buddhoṣṇīṣa Vijaya Yoga Practice Manual
(T no. 973) 157
Concluding Comments 178
Acknowledgment 180 |
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| ISSN | 25762923 (P); 25762931 (E) |
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| DOI | https://dx.doi.org/10.15239/hijbs.01.02.06 |
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| Created date | 2021.03.23 |
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| Modified date | 2021.03.23 |
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