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How to Create a Great Monastery: Xuanzang’s Foundation Legend of Nālandā in Its Indian Context |
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Author |
Deeg, Max (著)
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Source |
Hualin International Journal of Buddhist Studies
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Volume | v.3 n.1 Special Issue: Manuscript Studies and Xuanzang Studies |
Date | 2020.05 |
Pages | 228 - 258 |
Publisher | Cambria Press |
Publisher Url |
http://www.cambriapress.com/
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Location | New York, US [紐約州, 美國] |
Content type | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
Language | 英文=English |
Note | Author Affiliations: Cardiff University |
Keyword | Xuanzang; Nālandā; Mañjuśrīmūlakalpa; Vasubandhu; Gupta; foundation story; genealogy |
Abstract | Xuanzang’s Datang Xiyu ji has been and is notoriously used for the reconstruction of South Asian history and the history of Buddhism in India. Very often Xuanzang’s information is either dismissed because it does not corroborate or even contradicts the ‘facts’ in Indian sources (epigraphic or literary sources), or is used to overwrite these sources. Both approaches usually do not take into account the wider context in which the different sources are situated. This paper will take up as a case study Xuanzang’s description of the foundation of Nālandā Mahāvihāra through the Gupta kings and the available South Asian material to show how a comparative analysis can lead to a new approach to the Datang Xiyu ji as a source for the study of cultural history instead of reading it exclusively in a simplistically and uncritically positivist way. |
ISSN | 25762923 (P); 25762931 (E) |
DOI | https://dx.doi.org/10.15239/hijbs.03.01.07 |
Hits | 504 |
Created date | 2021.03.23 |
Modified date | 2021.03.23 |

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