The Making of a Savior Bodhisattva_ Dizang in Medieval China

Abstract

Figures; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations;Introduction: Problems and Perspectives; PART 1: Early Images: The Bodhisattva of This Defiled World; Early Scriptural Representations: Texts and Contexts; The Scripture on the Ten Wheels ;The Section on the Sumeru Treasury; The Intellectual and Socio-Political Climate; Cultic Beginnings Reconsidered; Buddhist Records of Dizang Worship; The Sanjie Jiao Connection; The Work of the Translator and Exegete Sinbang; Icons of Dizang and the Six Paths in Shaanxi Art ; Rethinking the Early Dissemination of Dizang Worship; PART 2: Multiple Images: This World, Hell, and Pure Land; Indigenous and Accretionary Scriptures; The Scripture on Divination: From Karmic Divination to Philosophical Meditation; The Exorcism Method: A Buddho-Daoist Formula for Demonology; A Ritual Manual on the Bodhisattva Dizang: Dizang in Esoteric Rites; The Scripture on the Bodhisattva Dizang: From Hell to Pure Land; The Scripture on the Past Vows: A Canonization of Filial Piety and Afterlife Practices ; New Scriptures, New Images of Dizang; Art and Epigraphy; A Princely Householder or Monk Bodhisattva; Dizang and Guanyin as Saviors of This World; From Amitâbha Triads to Rebirth in the Pure Land; Glimpses of a Bhaiºajyaguru Connection; A Ray of Light in the Ten Kings’ Dark Courts; Guiding the Way in the Afterlife: The Bodhisattva Yinlu; Images of Dizang in Esoteric Buddhist Practices; Forgotten Images in Religious Artifacts ;Narative Literature; The Earliest Dizang Miracle Tale; Non-Buddhist Records ; A Buddhist Compilation of Dizang Miracle Tales; The Canonization of a Buddhist Cult; Conclusion: Reassessing Dizang, Lord of the Underworld ; Afterlife Practices in China; Female Practice of Filial Piety; Ritual Divination, Exorcism, and Healing; The Daoist Savior of Hells; The Cult of Mount Jiuhua ; Rethinking Tang Buddhism ; Appendix 1: The Scripture on the Ten Wheels: Reevaluating the Traditional Dating; Appendix 2: Antecedents of Dizang? Kºitigarbha in India and Central Asia ; Appendix 3: Translations of Scriptures; The Exorcism Method of Dizang’s Aspiration Toward Great Awakening ; A Ritual Manual on the Bodhisattva Dizang ; Scripture on the Bodhisattva Dizang ; Works Cited; Index;