The ERC-funded research project BuddhistRoad aims to create a new framework to enable understanding of the complexities in the dynamics of cultural encounter and religious transfer in pre-modern Eastern Central Asia. Buddhism was one major factor in this exchange: for the first time the multi-layered relationships between the trans-regional Buddhist traditions (Chinese, Indian, Tibetan) and those based on local Buddhist cultures (Khotanese, Uyghur, Tangut) will be explored in a systematic way. The second volume Buddhism in Central Asia II—Practice and Rituals, Visual and Materials Transfer based on the mid-project conference held on September 16th–18th, 2019, at CERES, Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Germany) focuses on two of the six thematic topics addressed by the project, namely on "practices and rituals", exploring material culture in religious context such as mandalas and talismans, as well as "visual and material transfer", including shared iconographies and the spread of 'Khotanese' themes.
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Foreword: Carmen Meinert and Henrik H. Sørensen Acknowledgements General Abbreviations Bibliographic Abbreviations Illustrations Notes on Contributors
Introduction Central Asia: Sacred Sites and the Transmission of Religious Practices 1
Part 1 Visual Material and Transfer Chapter 1 Did the Silk Road(s) Extend from Dunhuang, Mount Wutai, and Chang’an to Kyoto, Japan? A Reassessment Based on Material Culture from the Temple Gate Tendai Tradition of Miidera 17 Chapter 2 Representations of a Series of Large Buddha Figures in the Buddhist Caves of Kuča: Reflections on Their Origin and Meaning 68 Chapter 3 Buddhist Painting in the South of the Tarim Basin: A Chronological Conundrum 97 Chapter 4 ‘Khotanese Themes’ in Dunhuang: Visual and Ideological Transfer in the 9th–11th Centuries 118 Chapter 5 The ‘Sogdian Deities’ Twenty Years on: A Reconsideration of a Small Painting from Dunhuang 153
Part 2 Practices and Rituals Chapter 6 Seeking the Pure Land in Tangut Art 207 Chapter 7 The Avalokiteśvara Cult in Turfan and Dunhuang in the Pre-Mongolian Period 244 Chapter 8 Bridging Yoga and Mahāyoga: Samaya in Early Tantric Buddhism 270 Chapter 9 Visualising Oneself as the Cosmos: An Esoteric Buddhist Meditation Text from Dunhuang 288 Chapter 10 Beyond Spatial and Temporal Contingencies: Tantric Rituals in Eastern Central Asia under Tangut Rule, 11th–13th C. 313 Chapter 11 The Serlingpa Acala in Tibet and the Tangut Empire 366 Chapter 12 Mahākāla Literature Unearthed from Karakhoto 400 Chapter 13 Practice and Rituals in Uyghur Buddhist Texts: A Preliminary Appraisal 430
Bibliography Index of Deities and Buddhas Index of Dynasties, Kingdoms, and Empires Index of Personal Names Index of Places Index of Technical Terms Index of Text Names
