Buddhism in Central Asia III

Lewis Doney, PhD (2011), is Professor of Tibetan Studies at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and cooperation partner of the ERC project BuddhistRoad. He has published on numerous aspects of early Tibetan kingship and religion and Sino-Tibetan communities around Dunhuang, including the monograph The Zangs gling ma: The First Padmasambhava Biography (International Institute for Tibetan and Buddhist Studies, 2014) and the edited volume, Bringing Buddhism to Tibet: History and Narrative in the Dba’ bzhed Manuscript (De Gruyter, 2021).Carmen Meinert, PhD (2001), is Professor for Central Asian Religions at Ruhr University Bochum and PI of the ERC project BuddhistRoad. She is trained in Buddhist and Tibetan Studies, as well as Sinology. Her recent publications include many individual contributions to these fields, as well as co-editing Buddhist Encounters and Identities Across East Asia (Brill, 2018) and Buddhism in Central Asia I: Patronage, Legitimation, Sacred Space, and Pilgrimage (Brill, 2020). Henrik H. Sørensen, PhD (1988), Ruhr University 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) and Buddhism in Central Asia II: Practice and Rituals, Visual and Material Transfer (Brill, 2022). His current research focuses on Buddhism in Dunhuang.Yukiyo Kasai, PhD (2005), Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, is a research associate of the ERC project BuddhistRoad and received her habilitation degree in 2021. She has demonstrated her vast knowledge of Uyghur manuscripts and their multilinguality through a number of published monographs and diverse articles on Old Uyghur Buddhist texts, and has in addition recently co-edited Buddhism in Central Asia II: Practice and Rituals, Visual and Material Transfer (Brill, 2022).

• In Memoriam: Jan AssmannIn Memoriam: Diego LoukotaForewordAcknowledgementsGeneral AbbreviationsBibliographic AbbreviationsList of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: The Meeting of Religious Traditions and of Beliefs in Eastern Central AsiaLewis Doney, Carmen Meinert, Henrik H. Sørensen & Yukiyo KasaiPart 1: Impacts of Non-Buddhist Influences1. Islamic Expansion into Central Asia and Muslim-Buddhist EncountersMichal Biran2. Witch Women and Amorous Monkeys: Non-Buddhist Substrata in Khotanese ReligionDiego Loukota3. Uyghur Buddhism and the Impact of Manichaeism and Native Religion: The Case of Religious TerminologyJens Wilkens4. The Christian Communities in Tang China: Between Adaptation and Religious Self-IdentityMax Deeg5. On the Presence and Influence of Daoism in the Buddhist Material from DunhuangHenrik H. Sørensen6. Non-Buddhist Superhuman Beings in Early Tibetan Religious LiteratureLewis Doney7. The Fluid Lives of Tibetan Ritual Narrations during the Imperial and Post-Imperial PeriodDaniel BerounskýPart 2: Doctrines8. People, Places, Texts, and Topics: Another Look at the Larger Context of the Spread of Chan Buddhism in Eastern Central Asia during the Tibetan Imperial and Post-Imperial Period (7th–10th C.)Carmen Meinert9. Sino-Tibetan Scholasticism: A Case Study of the Pratītyasamutpādahṛdaya in DunhuangMeghan Howard Masang10. Prostration as wuti toudi 五體投地 or wulun toudi 五輪投地? A Possible Trace of Contacts between Certain Uyghur Translators and Esoteric BuddhismYukiyo Kasai11. The Funerary Context of Mogao Cave 17Mélodie Doumy & Sam van SchaikBibliographyIndex of Deities and BuddhasIndex of Dynasties, Kingdoms, and EmpiresIndex of Personal NamesIndex of PlacesIndex of Technical TermsIndex of Text Names