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The Suspended Crossing (śaṅkupatha) in the Gorges of the Indus River as described by Chinese pilgrims Faxian, Dharmodgata and Xuanzang |
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Hu-von Hinüber, Haiyan
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創価大学国際仏教学高等研究所年報=Annual Report of the International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology at Soka University=ソウカ ダイガク コクサイ ブッキョウガク コウトウ ケンキュウジョ ネンポウ
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| Volume | v.23 |
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| Date | 2020 |
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| Pages | 167 - 186 |
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| Publisher | 創価大学・国際仏教学高等研究所 |
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http://iriab.soka.ac.jp/publication/
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| Location | 八王子, 日本 [Hachioji, Japan] |
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| Content type | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Keyword | bàngtī 傍 梯 (pole-step); śaṅkupatha; xuándù 懸 度 (suspended crossing); Dharmodgata (Tanwujie 曇無竭 alias Fayong 法勇); yì 杙 (peg); Xuanzang 玄奘; zhuóyì 椓杙 (hitting-peg); bàngyì 傍杙 (pegs in a post) |
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| Abstract | As the sixth article on Buddhist monk Faxian,1 the present essay aims to supplement Chinese
historical sources concerning the “suspended crossing” (śaṅkupatha) in the mountainous north
of ancient India, which had been first discussed in paragraph §2.1-§2.4 of my 2011 article.2 The
complementary materials added here deal mainly with three aspects: (1) Corresponding to
Faxian’s word bàngtī 傍 梯 (pole-step), the paper discusses how Faxian’s direct successor
Dharmodgata used yì 杙 (peg) to climb the rock on the bank of the Indus as recorded in the
Gaosengzhuan 高僧傳 (§3). In this context, a complete English translation of Dharmodgata’s
biography written by Huijiao is published here as appendix (§7). (2) The śaṅkupatha (peg-path)
belonging to the uttarapatha (Northern route) was called xuándù 懸度 (suspended crossing) in
Chinese historical records. This article tries to systematically analyze the Chinese sources in
connection with the word xuándù such as in Daoxuan’s (596-667) Shijia Fangzhi 釋迦方志 and
some other books (§4). Also personal observations by scholars who travelled to this area in the
20th century are added here. (3) In addition to Dharmodgata’s yì, Xuanzang (602-664) described
in the Datang Xiyuji 大唐西域記 how he crossed the gorges of the Indus with help of the same
technique (zhuóyì 椓 杙 : hitting-peg). Moreover, one description therein includes the word
bang-yì 傍杙 (pegs in a post) which is lexically similar to Faxian’s term bang-tī 傍梯 (§5). |
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| Table of contents | §1. Preface: Another look at Faxian’s bàngtī 傍梯 (śaṅkupatha) 167
§2. Multi-view investigation of the Sanskrit term śaṅkupatha (peg-path) 169
§3. On Dharmodgata (Tanwujie 曇無竭), Faxian’s direct successor 173
§4. The “Suspended Crossing” (xuándù 懸度) as described in Chinese historical records 177
§5. zhuóyì 椓杙 and bàngyì 傍杙 in Xunzang’s Datang Xiyuji 大唐西域記 179
§6. Some concluding remarks on the potential of future research 182
§7. Appendix: The English Translation of Dharmodgata’s Biography 183
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| ISSN | 13438980 (P) |
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| Hits | 143 |
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| Created date | 2021.11.19 |
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| Modified date | 2022.04.14 |
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