Buddhism and Taoism Face to Face

Christine Mollier is a research scholar specializing in the history ofmedieval Taoism at the French National Center for Scientific Research(CNRS). She is the author of Une apocalypse taoïste du début duVe siècle: Le Livre des Incantations Divines des Grottes Abyssales and acontributor to leading publications in the fields of Chinese religionsand Dunhuang studies.

出版者:University of Hawaii Press

作者:Christine Mollier

页数:256

出版时间:2009-10-30

价格:170.00 元

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780824834111

图书标签:道教佛教religion道教美术哲学佛教美术

Christine Mollier reveals in this volume previously unexplored dimensions of the interaction between Buddhism and Taoism in medieval China. While scholars of Chinese religions have long recognized the mutual influences linking the two traditions, Mollier here brings to light their intense contest for hegemony in the domains of scripture and ritual. Drawing on a far-reaching investigation of canonical texts, together with manuscript sources from Dunhuang and the monastic libraries of Japan--many of them studied here for the first time--she demonstrates the competition and complementarity of the two great Chinese religions in their quest to address personal and collective fears of diverse ills, including sorcery, famine, and untimely death. In this context, Buddhist apocrypha and Taoist scriptures were composed through a process of mutual borrowing, yielding parallel texts, Mollier argues, that closely mirrored one another. Life-extending techniques, astrological observances, talismans, spells, and the use of effigies and icons to resolve the fundamental preoccupations of medieval society were similarly incorporated in both religions. In many cases, as a result, one and the same body of material can be found in both Buddhist and Taoist guises.

Among the exorcistic, prophylactic, and therapeutic ritual methods explored here in detail are the "Heavenly Kitchens" that grant divine nutrition to their adepts, incantations that were promoted to counteract bewitchment, as well as talismans for attaining longevity and the protection of stellar deities. The destiny of the Jiuku Tianzun, the Taoist bodhisattva whose salvific mission and iconography were modeled on Guanyin (Avalokitesvara), is examined at length. Through the case-studies set forth here, the patterns whereby medieval Buddhists and Taoists each appropriated and transformed for their own use the rites and scriptures of their rivals are revealed with unprecedented precision.

Buddhism and Taoism Face to Face is abundantly illustrated with drawings and diagrams from canonical and manuscript sources, together with art and artifacts photographed by the author in the course of her field research in China. Sophisticated in its analysis, broad in its synthesis of a variety of difficult material, and original in its interpretations, it will be required reading for those interested in East Asian religions and in the history of the medieval Chinese sciences, including astrology, medicine and divination.

用户评价

还是希望她不要来哥大。书是很好，但有那么一点过了。

还是希望她不要来哥大。书是很好，但有那么一点过了。

可说是非常开眼界的书。

还是希望她不要来哥大。书是很好，但有那么一点过了。

还是希望她不要来哥大。书是很好，但有那么一点过了。