The Tibetan Assimilation of Buddhism Conversion, Contestation, and Memory

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ISBN: 9780195152272 | 0195152271
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Copyright: 2/7/2002

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This book explores the Buddhist role in the formation of Tibetan religious thought and identity. In three major sections, the author examines Tibet's eighth-century conversion, sources of dispute within the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, and the continuing revelation of the teaching in both doctrine and myth.

A Note on Pronunciation

A Brief Chronology of Tibetan Buddhism

xvii

Introduction: Death, Literacy, and Tibet's Buddhist Elite

(20)

The Uncertain Fate of the Dead

(5)

Literacy and Learning in a Dark Age

(7)

Elite Buddhism and the Expression of Authority

(6)

PART I: CONVERSION AND NARRATIVE

The Chinese Mother of Tibet's Dharma-King: The Testament of Ba and the Beginnings of Tibetan Buddhist Historiography

(15)

History's Mirrorwork

(3)

China's Nephew

(2)

Tibet's Son

(2)

Solomon on the Silk Road

(2)

The Religious Transformation of History

(4)

History and Identity

(2)

The Mark of Vermilion: Rebirth and Resurrection in an Early Medieval Tale

(13)

The Mark of Vermilion

(4)

Cosmology, Karma, and Conversion

(4)

From Rebirth to Resurrection

(5)

Plague, Power, and Reason: The Royal Conversion to Buddhism Reconsidered

(18)

The Puzzle of the Tibetan Conversion

(2)

The Power of Plague

(1)

The Charisma of Reason

(2)

Buddhism and Legislation

(2)

Imperial Cosmopolitanism

(7)

Converting the Conversion

(4)

PART II: SOURCES OF CONTESTATION

From Korea to Tibet: Action at a Distance in the Early Medieval World System

(16)

An Island in the Eastern Sea

(1)

The Tamer of Tigers

(4)

Chan Traces in Later Traditions

(3)

The Vicissitudes of the Great Chinese Commentary

(4)

Korea, Tibet, and the Early Medieval World System

(3)

What is ``Tibetan Scholasticism''? Three Ways of Thought

(36)

Sakya Pandita's Reasons

(8)

Karma Pakshi's Doubts

(9)

Dolpopa on the Age of Perfection

106

(13)

Contestation and Self-representation

119

(2)

The Purificatory Gem and its Cleansing: A Late Polemical Discussion of Apocryphal Texts

121

(20)

Our Notions of Buddhist Canon and Apocrypha

121

(2)

Realism, Idealism, and Scriptural Authenticity

123

(3)

The Purificatory Gem and Its Cleansing: Historical Background

126

(2)

The Texts and Why They Were Written

128

(3)

The Question of Spiritual Treasures

131

(10)

PART III: MYTH, MEMORY, REVELATION

The Imaginal Persistence of the Empire

141

(22)

The Truth of Myth

141

(3)

The Most Compassionate King

144

(11)

The Advent of the Lotus Guru

155

(5)

Hierarchy and Universality

160

(3)

Samantabhadra and Rudra: Myths of Innate Enlightenment and Radical Evil

163

(15)

Fragments from a Myth of Tibet

163

(4)

The Myth of Samantabhadra

167

(3)

The Matricide Rudra

170

(6)

Must the Message Be Mythic?

176

(2)

The Amnesic Monarch and the Five Mnemic Men: ``Memory'' in the Great Perfection Tradition

178

(19)

Preliminary Orientations

178

(2)

Mnemic Engagement in the Wide-Open Tantra of Universal Liberation

180

(7)

An Allegorical Re-presentation

187

(6)

Mnemic Engagement in the Practice of Prayer

193

(1)

By Way of Conclusion

194

(3)

Appendix: The Prayer of Great Power

197

(6)

Notes

203

(70)

Chinese Glossary

273

(2)

Bibliography

275

(30)

Tibetan References

275

(8)

Sanskrit References

283

(1)

Chinese References

283

(1)

Western Language References

284

(21)

Index

305

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