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-Universitaet 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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"Although not necessarily the most accessible volume - indeed, several of the chapters pertain to very specific subjects within that require a degree of prior understanding [..] - taken as a whole, this volume is an excellent discussion of crucial aspects on Central Asian Buddhism that will undoubtedly generate valuable further discussion and research." - Joseph Chadwin, University of Vienna, in: Religious Studies Review 49/3 (2023), 433
"Extensively illustrated, this volume is essentially a series of specialized investigations into the material cultures of Buddhism local not to Central Asia broadly but to medieval Eastern Central Asia." - Jamsheed K. Choksy, Indiana University, Bloomington, in: Comparative Sociology 22/4 (2023), 631-633
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Henrik H. Sorensen, Pd. D. (1988), Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Germany is project coordinator of the ERC project BuddhistRoad. He has published widely on Chinese and Korean Buddhism, in particular Esoteric Buddhist traditions. He served as co-editor of Esoteric Buddhism and the Tantras in East Asia (Brill, 2011). His current research focuses on Buddhism in Dunhuang.
Yukiyo Kasai, Ph.D. (2005), Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Germany is a research associate of the ERC project BuddhistRoad. She has published monographs and many articles on Old Uyghur Buddhist texts, including Uyghur Legitimation and the Role of Buddhism (Brill, 2020).
Foreword
Acknowledgements
General Abbreviations
Bibliographic Abbreviations
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Central Asia: Sacred Sites and the Transmission of Religious Practices
?Yukiyo Kasai, Henrik H. Sorensen, and Haoran Hou
Part 1: Visual Material and Transfer
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
?George Keyworth
2 Representations of a Series of Large Buddha Figures in the Buddhist Caves of Kuca: Reflections on Their Origin and Meaning
?Ines Konczak-Nagel
3 Buddhist Painting in the South of the Tarim Basin: A Chronological Conundrum
?Ciro Lo Muzio
4 'Khotanese Themes' in Dunhuang: Visual and Ideological Transfer in the 9th-11th Centuries
?Erika Forte
5 The 'Sogdian Deities' Twenty Years on: A Reconsideration of a Small Painting from Dunhuang
?Lilla Russell-Smith
Part 2: Practices and Rituals
6 Seeking the Pure Land in Tangut Art
?Michelle C. Wang
7 The Avalokitesvara Cult in Turfan and Dunhuang in the Pre-Mongolian Period
?Yukiyo Kasai
8 Bridging Yoga and Mahayoga: Samaya in Early Tantric Buddhism
?Jacob P. Dalton
9 Visualising Oneself as the Cosmos: An Esoteric Buddhist Meditation Text from Dunhuang
?Henrik H. Sorensen
10 Beyond Spatial and Temporal Contingencies: Tantric Rituals in Eastern Central Asia under Tangut Rule, 11th-13th C.
?Carmen Meinert
11 The Serlingpa Acala in Tibet and the Tangut Empire
?Iain Sinclair
12 Mahakala Literature Unearthed from Karakhoto
?Haoran Hou
13 Practice and Rituals in Uyghur Buddhist Texts: A Preliminary Appraisal
?Jens Wilkens
Bibliography
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