Contents

Acknowledgments

List of Illustrations

List of Abbreviations

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Networks and Identities in the Buddhist World

Part 1 Translocal Networks

Chapter 1 Bagan Murals and the Sino-Tibetan World

Chapter 2 Noise along the Network: A Set of Chinese Ming Embroidered Thangkas in the Indian Himalayas

Chapter 3 Nation Founder and Universal Saviour: Guanyin and Buddhist Networks in the Nanzhao and Dali Kingdoms

Chapter 4 A Study on the Combination of the Deities Fudō and Aizen in Medieval Shingon Esoteric Buddhism

Chapter 5 The Transmission of the Buddhadharma from India to China: An Examination of Kumārajīva’s Transliteration of the Dhāraṇīs of the Saddharmapuṇḍarīkasūtra

Chapter 6 The Journey of Zhao Xian and the Exile of Royal Descendants in the Yuan Dynasty (1271–1368)

Part 2 Negotiating and Constructing Identities

Chapter 7 Wailing for Identity: Topical and Poetic Expressions of Cultural Belonging in Chinese Buddhist Literature

Chapter 8 How the Dharma Ended Up in the “Eastern Country”: Korean Monks in the Chinese Buddhist Imaginaire during the Tang and Early Song

Chapter 9 Buddhist Pilgrimage and Spiritual Identity: Korean Sŏn Monks Journeying to Tang China in Search of the Dharma

Chapter 10 The Rebirth Legend of Prince Shōtoku: Buddhist Networks in Ninth Century China and Japan

Chapter 11 Because They Entrusted to Them a Part of Their Buddhist Selves—Imagined Communities, Layered Identities, and Networking

Chapter 12 Bodily Care Identity in Buddhist Monastic Life of Ancient India and China: An Advancing Purity Threshold

Bibliography

Index