文档介绍：Mediating the Power of Buddhas
SUNY series in Buddhist Studies
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Mediating the Power of Buddhas
Ritual in the MañjuŸrımÒlakalpa
Glenn Wallis
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Wallis, Glenn.
Mediating the power of Buddhas : ritual in the MañjuŸrımÒlakalpa / Glenn Wallis.
p. cm. —(SUNY series in Buddhist studies)
Includes index.
ISBN 0-7914-5411-8 (alk. paper) — ISBN 0-7914-5412-6 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Tripi˛aka. SÒtrapi˛aka. Tantra. MañjuŸrımu¯lakalpa—Criticism, interpretation,
etc. I. Title. II. Series.
BQ2180 .M347 2002
'85—dc21 2001049443
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This work is for Friederike, Alexandra,
and Mia, who give it all meaning.
Contents
Preface ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Chapter 1: Introduction 1
Aims / 1
Methods / 5
The Text: MañjuŸrımÒlakalpa / 9
The Ritual / 23
Chapter 2: The Source of Power: The Assembly (sannip>ta)55
Cosmology / 59
Mmk 1: vision and cult / 61
The text as cult image / 67
Revelation and transmission / 68
Chapter 3: The Refraction of Power: The Cult Image (pa˛a)87
The pa˛a as image and animated object / 87
Creation of the cult object (pa˛avidh>na) / 91
Chapter 4: The Empowered Practitioner (s>dhaka) 127