Esoteric, Chan and Vinaya Ties in Tang Buddhism: The Ordination Platform of the Huishan Monastery on Mount Song in the Religious Policy of Emperor Daizong
Issue: Vol 37 No. 2 (2020)
Journal: Buddhist Studies Review
Subject Areas: Religious Studies Buddhist Studies
DOI: 10.1558/bsrv.41138
Abstract:
This paper explores the reconstruction of the ordination platform in the Huishan monastery 會善寺 on Mount Song in 767 in the context of the reinforcement of pro-Buddhist policies at the court of Emperor Daizong 代宗 (r. 762–779). The vinaya monks and state officials who engaged in this platform’s reconstruction are identified as associates of two prominent monastic figures: Amoghavajra (Bukong jin’gang 不空金剛; 704–774), an Esoteric leader at the imperial court; and Songshan Puji 嵩山普寂 (651–739), regarded as the seventh patriarch in the Northern Chan tradition. The key roles played by disciples of these two masters in the reconstruction of the Huishan platform attest to significant congruence in ritual practices between proponents of the Esoteric and Chan groups in Tang dynasty China, primarily in the areas of precept conferral and monastic ordination.
Author: Anna Sokolova
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Abbreviations
JTS Jiu Tangshu 舊唐書. Comp. Liu Xu 劉昫et al. Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 1975.
QTW Quan Tangwen 全唐文(= Qinding Quan Tangwen 欽定全唐文). Comp. Dong Hao 董浩et al. Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 1983.
SGSZ Song gaoseng zhuan宋高僧傳.Comp.Zanning 贊寜(919–1001).T (see below) 2061 50.
SKQS Siku quanshu 四庫全書(= Jingyin Wenyuange siku quanshu 景印文淵閣四庫全書). Comp. Ji Yun 䲨㖨et al. Taipei: Shangwu yinshuguan,1983–1986.
T Taishō shinshū daizōkyō 大正新修大藏經. Ed. Takakusu Junjirō 高楠順次郎et al. Tokyo: Taishō Issaikyō Kankōkai, 1924–1935.
X Dai-nippon Zokuzōkyō大日本續藏經. Ed. Maeda Eun 前田慧雲and Nakano Tatsue 中野達慧. Taibei: Xinwenfeng chuban gongsi, 1968–1970.
XTS Xin Tangshu 新唐書. Comp. Ouyang Xiu 欧阳修et al. Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 1975.
XXSKQS Xuxiu siku quanshu 續修四庫全書. Ed. Gu Tinglong 顧廷龍et al. Shanghai: Shanghaiguji chubanshe, 2002.
ZZTJ Zizhi tongjian資治通鑑.Comp.Sima Guang司馬光.Beijing: Guji chubanshe, 1956.
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