Domesticating the Dharma: Buddhist Cults and the Hwaom Synthesis in Silla Korea

McBride, Richard D., II (著)

著者

McBride, Richard D., II (著)

出版年月日

2008

ページ

228

出版者

University of Hawai'i Press

出版サイト

https://uhpress.hawaii.edu/

出版地

Honolulu, HI, US [檀香山, 夏威夷州, 美國]

資料の種類

書籍=Book

言語

英文=English

ノート

Author Affiliation: Brigham Young University–Hawai‘i

抄録

Western scholarship has hitherto described the assimilation of Buddhism in Korea in terms of the importation of Sino-Indian and Chinese intellectual schools. This has led to an overemphasis on the scholastic understanding of Buddhism and overlooked evidence of the way Buddhism was practiced "on the ground." Domesticating the Dharma provides a much-needed corrective to this view by presenting for the first time a descriptive analysis of the cultic practices that defined and shaped the way Buddhists in Silla Korea understood their religion from the sixth to tenth centuries. Critiquing the conventional two-tiered model of "elite" versus "popular" religion, Richard McBride demonstrates how the eminent monks, royalty, and hereditary aristocrats of Silla were the primary proponents of Buddhist cults and that rich and diverse practices spread to the common people because of their influence.

Drawing on Buddhist hagiography, traditional narratives, historical anecdotes, and epigraphy, McBride describes the seminal role of the worship of Buddhist deities―in particular the Buddha Úâkyamuni, the future buddha Maitreya, and the bodhisattva Avalokiteúvara―in the domestication of the religion on the Korean peninsula and the use of imagery from the Maitreya cult to create a symbiosis between the native religious observances of Silla and those being imported from the Chinese cultural sphere. He shows how in turn Buddhist imagery transformed Silla intellectually, geographically, and spatially to represent a Buddha land and sacred locations detailed in the Avataṃsaka Sûtra (Huayan jing/Hwaŏm kyŏng). Emphasizing the importance of the interconnected vision of the universe described in the Avataṃsaka Sûtra, McBride depicts the synthesis of Buddhist cults and cultic practices that flourished in Silla Korea with the practice-oriented Hwaŏm tradition from the eight to tenth centuries and its subsequent rise to a uniquely Korean cult of the Divine Assembly described in scripture.

Frontmatter
Contents v
Preface vii
Abbreviations and Conventions xi
Introduction 1
Chapter One: Buddhism and the State in Silla 13
Chapter Two: The Cult of Maitreya 33
Chapter Three: The Cult of Avalokiteśvara 62
Chapter Four: The Rise of Hwaŏm Buddhism in Silla 86
Chapter Five: The Hwaŏm Synthesis of Buddhist Cults 109
Concluding Reflections 139
Appendix 1: The Divine Assembly from the Avataṃsaka Sūtra in Sixty Rolls 147
Appendix 2: The Divine Assembly from the Avataṃsaka Sūtra in Eighty Rolls 149
Notes 151
Glossary of Sinitic Logographs 179
Selected Bibliography 193
Index 217

ISBN

9780824862244

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