Buddhism in Central Asia II

Henrik H. Sørensen, Pd. D. (1988), Ruhr-Universität 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-Universität 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).

"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

• ForewordAcknowledgementsGeneral AbbreviationsBibliographic AbbreviationsList of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Central Asia: Sacred Sites and the Transmission of Religious PracticesYukiyo Kasai, Henrik H. Sørensen, and Haoran HouPart 1: Visual Material and Transfer1 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 MiideraGeorge Keyworth2 Representations of a Series of Large Buddha Figures in the Buddhist Caves of Kuča: Reflections on Their Origin and MeaningInes Konczak-Nagel3 Buddhist Painting in the South of the Tarim Basin: A Chronological ConundrumCiro Lo Muzio4 ‘Khotanese Themes’ in Dunhuang: Visual and Ideological Transfer in the 9th–11th CenturiesErika Forte5 The ‘Sogdian Deities’ Twenty Years on: A Reconsideration of a Small Painting from DunhuangLilla Russell-SmithPart 2: Practices and Rituals6 Seeking the Pure Land in Tangut ArtMichelle C. Wang7 The Avalokiteśvara Cult in Turfan and Dunhuang in the Pre-Mongolian PeriodYukiyo Kasai8 Bridging Yoga and Mahāyoga: Samaya in Early Tantric BuddhismJacob P. Dalton9 Visualising Oneself as the Cosmos: An Esoteric Buddhist Meditation Text from DunhuangHenrik H. Sørensen10 Beyond Spatial and Temporal Contingencies: Tantric Rituals in Eastern Central Asia under Tangut Rule, 11th–13th C.Carmen Meinert11 The Serlingpa Acala in Tibet and the Tangut Empire Iain Sinclair12 Mahākāla Literature Unearthed from KarakhotoHaoran Hou13 Practice and Rituals in Uyghur Buddhist Texts: A Preliminary AppraisalJens WilkensBibliographyIndex