Jacob P. Dalton is assistant professor of Tibetan Buddhist studies in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley.
摘要
The Taming of the Demons examines mythic and ritual themes of violence, demon taming, and blood sacrifice in Tibetan Buddhism. Taking as its starting point Tibet’s so-called age of fragmentation (842 to 986 C.E.), the book draws on previously unstudied manuscripts discovered in the “library cave” near Dunhuang, on the old Silk Road. These ancient documents, it argues, demonstrate how this purportedly inactive period in Tibetan history was in fact crucial to the Tibetan assimilation of Buddhism, and particularly to the spread of violent themes from tantric Buddhism into Tibet at the local and the popular levels. Having shed light on this “dark age” of Tibetan history, the second half of the book turns to how, from the late tenth century onward, the period came to play a vital symbolic role in Tibet, as a violent historical “other” against which the Tibetan Buddhist tradition defined itself.
目次
Introduction 1 Evil and Ignorance in Tantric Buddhism 23 Demons in the Dark 44 A Buddhist Manual for Human Sacrifice? 77 Sacrifice and the Law 95 Foundational Violence 110 Buddhist Warfare 126 Conclusions Violence in the Mirror 144 Appendix A The Subjugation of Rudra 159 Appendix B Dunhuang Liberation Rite Transcription of PT42ITJ419 207 Appendix C Dunhuang Liberation Rite II Translation and Transliteration of PT8401 210 Notes 219 Glossary of Tibetan Titles and Terms 279 Bibliography 285 Index 305
