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100 1 $aNg, Zhiru,$d1964-
245 14 $aThe making of a savior bodhisattva :$bDizang in medieval China /$cZhiru.
260 $aHonolulu :$bUniversity of Hawai'i Press,$cc2007.
300 $axiii, 305 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
490 1 $aStudies in East Asian Buddhism ;$v21
500 $a"A Kuroda Institute book."
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 259-294) and index.
505 0 $aEarly scriptural representations : text and contexts -- Cultic beginnings reconsidered -- Indigenous and accretionary scriptures -- Art and epigraphy -- Narrative literature -- Conclusion: Reassessing Dizang, Lord of the Underworld.
520 1 $a"In modern Chinese Buddhism, Dizang is especially popular as the sovereign of the underworld. Often represented as a monk wearing a royal crown, Dizang helps the deceased faithful navigate the complex underworld bureaucracy, avert the punitive terrors of hell, and arrive at the happy realm of rebirth. The author is concerned with the formative period of this important Buddhist deity, before his underworldly aspect eclipses his connections to other religious expressions and at a time when the art, mythology, practices, and texts of his cult were still replete with possibilities. She begins by problematizing the reigning model of Dizang, one that proposes an evolution of gradual sinicization and increasing vulgarization of a relatively unknown Indian bodhisattva, Ksitigarbha, into a Chinese deity of the underworld. Such a model, the author argues, obscures the many-faceted personality and iconography of Dizang. Rejecting it, she deploys a broad array of materials (art, epigraphy, ritual texts, scripture, and narrative literature) to recomplexity Dizang and restore (as much as possible from the fragmented historical sources) what this figure meant to Chinese Buddhists from the sixth to tenth centuries."--BOOK JACKET.
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830 0 $aStudies in East Asian Buddhism ;$vno. 21.
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