Koichi Shinohara teaches in the Department of Religious Studies at Yale University. He is the coauthor of Speaking of Monks: Religious Biography in India and China and the coeditor of Images in Asian Religions: Texts and Contexts and Sins and Sinners: Perspectives from Asian Religions.
Koichi Shinohara traces the evolution of Esoteric Buddhist rituals from the simple recitation of spells in the fifth century to complex systems involving image worship, mandala initiation, and visualization practices in the ninth century. He presents an important new reading of a seventh-century Chinese text called the Collected Dharani Sūtras, which shows how earlier rituals for specific deities were synthesized into a general Esoteric initiation ceremony and how, for the first time, the notion of an Esoteric Buddhist pantheon emerged.
In the Collected Dharani Sūtras, rituals for specific deities were typically performed around images of the deities, yet Esoteric Buddhist rituals in earlier sources involved the recitation of spells rather than the use of images. The first part of this study explores how such simpler rituals came to be associated with the images of specific deities and ultimately gave rise to the general Esoteric initiation ceremony described in the crucial example of the All-Gathering mandala ritual in the Collected Dharani Sūtras. The visualization practices so important to later Esoteric Buddhist rituals were absent from this ceremony, and their introduction would fundamentally change Esoteric Buddhist practice.
This study examines the translations of dhāranī sūtras made by Bodhiruci in the early eighth century and later Esoteric texts, such as Yixing’s commentary on the Mahāvairocana sūtra and Amoghavajra’s ritual manuals, to show how incorporation of visualization greatly enriched Esoteric rituals and helped develop elaborate iconographies for the deities. Over time, the ritual function of images became less certain, and the emphasis shifted toward visualization. This study clarifies the complex relationship between images and ritual, changing how we perceive Esoteric Buddhist art as well as ritual.
發表於2024-12-25
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好像啓發不大,除非專門看他做的文本。
評分梳理瞭一些通常被劃為『雜密』的儀式文本,追溯瞭密教儀式中『口頭 oral』與『視覺 visual』的發展關係,總結瞭儀式中『圖像 image』齣現的riual significance以及往後此significance逐漸被剝離的過程和原因,提齣這一變化與儀式『靈驗 efficacy』這一問題密切相關。不得不說日本人的文獻功夫還真是紮實……
評分好像啓發不大,除非專門看他做的文本。
評分梳理瞭一些通常被劃為『雜密』的儀式文本,追溯瞭密教儀式中『口頭 oral』與『視覺 visual』的發展關係,總結瞭儀式中『圖像 image』齣現的riual significance以及往後此significance逐漸被剝離的過程和原因,提齣這一變化與儀式『靈驗 efficacy』這一問題密切相關。不得不說日本人的文獻功夫還真是紮實……
評分好像啓發不大,除非專門看他做的文本。
Spells, Images, and Maṇḍalas 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載