The Transnational Cult of Mount Wutai

Susan Andrews, Ph.D. (2012), Columbia University, is Associate Professor of East Asian Religions at Mount Allison University. Her research explores sacred place and pilgrimage, Buddhism’s interactions with autochthonous forms of practice, the economics of religious life, and participative pedagogy. Jinhua Chen is a professor at the University of British Columbia and a visiting professor at several major universities, including Tokyo University (2003-04), Stanford (2012) and Capital Normal University (2019-20). He has published extensively on state-church relationships, monastic (hagio/)biographical literature, Buddhist sacred sites, relic veneration, Buddhism and technological innovation in medieval East Asia. Kuan Guang, Ph.D.(2010), SOAS, is a Research Fellow in Chinese Buddhism at King’s College, London. Kuan Guang's principle research interests lie in the history and texts of Chinese Buddhism, with a particular expertise and interest in translating classical Chinese Buddhist and historical texts. His current study is focused on Ming Buddhist history, particularly on an internationally well-known Buddhist pilgrimage centre Wutai Shan.

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Acknowledgements

Figures and Tables

Introduction

 Susan Andrews and Chen Jinhua





Part 1: Court Patronage and State Control

 1 From Mount Wutai to the Seven Jewel Tower: Monk Degan and Political Propaganda of the Wuzhou Period

 Yinggang Sun

 2 Faith and Realpolitik: Tang Dynasty Esoteric Buddhism at Mount Wutai

 Geoffrey Goble

 3 Monastic Officials on Wutai Shan under the Ming dynasty

 Kuan Guang

 4 Beyond Seeking for Sacredness: Shedding New Light on the Carving of the Jiaxing Canon on Mount Wutai

 Dewei Zhang





Part 2: Pilgrims and Sacred Sites

 5 A Japanese Pilgrim’s Visit to Wutai in the Winter of

 Robert Borgen

 6 The Pilgrimage Account of Duke Miγvačir of Alaša to Mount Wutai in

 Isabelle Charleux

 7 Visions in Translation: A Qing-Gelukpa Guidebook to Mount Wutai

 Wen-shing Chou

 8 Mount Wutai and Mañjuśrī in Old Uigur Buddhism

 Peter Zieme

 9 How Important is Mount Wutai? Sacred Space in a Zen Mirror

 T.H. Barrett





Part 3: Changing Practices at Mount Wutai

 10 Lama Nenghai’s imprint on Mount Wutai: Sino-Tibetan Buddhism among the Five Plateaus since the 1930s

 Ester Bianchi

 11 The Pure Land Teachings of Fazhao and the Mañjuśrī Cult of Mount Wutai

 Sheng Kai

 12 Fazhao Jin Bifeng, and Constructed Histories of Buddhist Chant and Music at Mount Wutai

 Beth Szczepanski





Part 4: Replicating Mount Wutai

 13 The Legacy of the True Visage: The Mañjuśrī Statues at Zhenrong yuan and Shuxiang si of Mount Wutai

 Sun-ah Choi

 14 Khotan and Mount Wutai: The significance of Central Asian actors in the making of the mountain cult

 Imre Hamar

 15 Transnational Mountain Cult, Local Religiopolitical and Economic Concerns: Mount Wutai and the Kamakura period miracle tales of Tōnomine

 Susan Andrews

 16 The Emergence of the “Five-Terrace Mountain” Cult in Korea

 Sangyop Lee

 17 Flying Mañjuśrī and Moving Mount Wutai Towards the Xi Xia Period: As Seen from Dunhuang Caves

 Wei-Cheng Lin

Index