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020 $a9780824830458 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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100 1 $aNg, Zhiru,$d1964-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2007018395
245 14 $aThe making of a savior bodhisattva :$bDizang in medieval China /$cZhiru.
260 $aHonolulu :$bUniversity of Hawai'i Press,$c[2007], ©2007.
300 $axiii, 305 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aStudies in East Asian Buddhism ;$v21
500 $a"A Kuroda Institute book."
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 259-294) and index.
505 00 $tIntroduction : problems and perspectives -- $gPt. 1.$tEarly images : the bodhisattva of this defiled world -- $g1.$tEarly scriptural representations : texts and contexts -- $g2.$tCultic beginnings reconsidered -- $gPt. 2.$tMultiple images : this world, hell, and pure land -- $g3.$tIndigenous and accretionary scriptures -- $g4.$tArt and epigraphy -- $g5.$tNarrative literature -- $tConclusion : reassessing Dizang, lord of the underworld -- $gApp 1.$tThe Scripture on the ten wheels : reevaluating the traditional dating -- $gApp 2.$tAntecedents of Dizang? : Ksitigarbha in India and Central Asia -- $gApp 3.$tTranslations of scriptures.
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.
600 00 $aKshitigarbha$c(Buddhist deity)$xCult$zChina$xHistory.
830 0 $aStudies in East Asian Buddhism ;$vno. 21.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83731650
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0713/2007011059.html
852 00 $beal$hBQ4710.K74$iC476 2007