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 Assmann

In Memoriam: Diego Loukota



Foreword

Acknowledgements

General Abbreviations

Bibliographic Abbreviations

List of Illustrations

Notes on Contributors



Introduction: The Meeting of Religious Traditions and of Beliefs in Eastern Central Asia

Lewis Doney, Carmen Meinert, Henrik H. Sørensen & Yukiyo Kasai



Part 1: Impacts of Non-Buddhist Influences

1. Islamic Expansion into Central Asia and Muslim-Buddhist Encounters

Michal Biran

2. Witch Women and Amorous Monkeys: Non-Buddhist Substrata in Khotanese Religion

Diego Loukota

3. Uyghur Buddhism and the Impact of Manichaeism and Native Religion: The Case of Religious Terminology

Jens Wilkens

4. The Christian Communities in Tang China: Between Adaptation and Religious Self-Identity

Max Deeg

5. On the Presence and Influence of Daoism in the Buddhist Material from Dunhuang

Henrik H. Sørensen

6. Non-Buddhist Superhuman Beings in Early Tibetan Religious Literature

Lewis Doney

7. The Fluid Lives of Tibetan Ritual Narrations during the Imperial and Post-Imperial Period

Daniel Berounský



Part 2: Doctrines

8. 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 Meinert

9. Sino-Tibetan Scholasticism: A Case Study of the Pratītyasamutpādahṛdaya in Dunhuang

Meghan Howard Masang

10. 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 Buddhism

Yukiyo Kasai

11. The Funerary Context of Mogao Cave 17

Mélodie Doumy & Sam van Schaik



Bibliography

Index of Deities and Buddhas

Index of Dynasties, Kingdoms, and Empires

Index of Personal Names

Index of Places

Index of Technical Terms

Index of Text Names