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Squaeling Silkworms, Bug Clothes, and Maidens Who Spit Silk: Indian Silk and Sericulture in Medieval Chinese Buddhism
Author Young, Stuart H.
Source Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies=JIABS
Volumev.42
Date2019
Pages633 - 680
PublisherPeeters Publishers
Publisher Url http://www.peeters-leuven.be/
LocationLeuven, Belgium [魯汶, 比利時]
Content type期刊論文=Journal Article
Language英文=English
AbstractIn medieval China, silk was the fabric of Buddhist monasticism. Silk enmeshed Chinese Buddhist monastery environs, monastic bodies, institutional economies, and literary discourses that helped shape Buddhist identities in China. This article examines how Chinese Buddhists sought to reconcile or remedy this state of affairs by adducing Indian Buddhist paradigms of silk production and use. In some Chinese sources, Indian Buddhism was similarly enveloped by silk. Other sources showed how Śākyamuni and the Indian sangha shunned silk as an ostentatious product of killing. Either way, Chinese Buddhist authors tied India with silk in ways that would ideally diminish the gap between Buddhism in China and in the land of its birth.
Table of contentsIntroduction 633
Indian Silk in the Chinese Buddhist Canon 638
Indian Silk for Imperial Chinese Consumption: The Travelogues of Faxian and Xuanzang 644
Yijing's Travelogue and the Practical Details of Indian Purity 651
Indian Silk in Vinaya Codes and Commentaries 655
Conclusion 671
References 674
ISSN0193600X (P); 25070347 (E)
DOI10.2143/JIABS.42.0.3287488
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Created date2021.03.20



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