The Fear of Being Reborn in the Hells: Death and the Afterlife in Early Twentieth-Century Mongolia

Kollmar-Paulenz, Karénina (著)

作者

Kollmar-Paulenz, Karénina (著)

出處題名

Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft

卷期

v.167 n.1

出版日期

2017

頁次

167 - 190

出版者

Harrassowitz Verlag

出版者網址

https://www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/DEU/index.ahtml

出版地

Wiesbaden, Germany [威斯巴登, 德國]

資料類型

期刊論文=Journal Article

使用語言

英文=English

摘要

The collection of Tibetan and Mongolian manuscripts and xylographs of Prof. Dr. Richard Ernst (Winterthur/Switzerland) that currently is catalogued at the Institute for Religious Studies of Bern University holds a couple of Mongolian picture-books (Mo. jiruɣ-tu nom). These books have been very popular in nineteenth century Mongolia. Often they showed in drastic images the different Buddhist hells and the suffering beings in them. In this way, they evoked the transitoriness of human existence and the omnipresence of death. Moreover, they threatened the lay populace with terrible punishments that awaited those who had not lived according to the ten virtuous precepts (Tib. dge ba bcu). The books in which image often prevailed over text were used by itinerant monks to illustrate and enforce their moral injunctions. This paper analyses one picture-book of the Ernst collection. “The picture-book of Molom toyin” (Mo. Molom toyin-u jiruɣ-tu taɣuji orosibai) reflects in its images the fears and anxieties about death and the afterlife that influenced the social life of the Mongolians in the early twentieth century. The study of this picture-book opens new ways to explore the every-day religious concepts that determined the Mongolian socio-religious practices in regard to death and the afterlife.

Summary 167
1 Introduction 167
2 The Mongolian versions of the narrative of Maudgalyāyana 170
3 The tale as told in the illustrated manuscript of the Ernst collection 174
4 Mongolian notions of death and the corpse 179
5 Buddhist hells and Mongolian netherworld 183
6 Conclusion 189

ISSN

03410137 (P); 27474402 (E)

DOI

https://doi.org/10.13173/zeitdeutmorggese.167.1.0167

點閱次數

178

建檔日期

2023.10.11

更新日期

2023.10.11