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Copp, Paul F.

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Voice, dust, shadow, stone: The makings of spells in medieval Chinese Buddhism.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Voice, dust, shadow, stone: The makings of spells in medieval Chinese Buddhism./
Author:	Copp, Paul F.
Description:	333 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-08, Section: A, page: 2963.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International66-08A.
Subject:	Religion, History of. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3188618
ISBN:	0542306905

Voice, dust, shadow, stone: The makings of spells in medieval Chinese Buddhism.
Copp, Paul F.

Voice, dust, shadow, stone: The makings of spells in medieval Chinese Buddhism. - 333 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-08, Section: A, page: 2963.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Princeton University, 2005.

This dissertation explores the culture of dharan&dotbelow;is and other Buddhist spells in China from the fourth through the eleventh centuries, especially the ways the forms and practices of these spells illuminate Chinese conceptions of magical language, practices of invocation, and the central place of materiality within Chinese Buddhist spellcraft. Accounts of the efficacy of one dharan&dotbelow;i, the "Superlative Spell of the Buddha's Crown" (Foding zunsheng tuoluoni), imagined to work through such mediums as dust, shadow, and wind, confound the usual academic understandings of dharan&dotbelow;is. Focusing my study on this spell allows me to give a better account of the plastic and contingent nature of spells as Chinese Buddhists understood them---or at least as they wrote about them, put them into practice, and constructed them in material forms---as well as of their history in China and connections with native spell and talisman practices.

ISBN: 0542306905Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017471
Religion, History of.

Voice, dust, shadow, stone: The makings of spells in medieval Chinese Buddhism.
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520 $a This dissertation explores the culture of dharan&dotbelow;is and other Buddhist spells in China from the fourth through the eleventh centuries, especially the ways the forms and practices of these spells illuminate Chinese conceptions of magical language, practices of invocation, and the central place of materiality within Chinese Buddhist spellcraft. Accounts of the efficacy of one dharan&dotbelow;i, the "Superlative Spell of the Buddha's Crown" (Foding zunsheng tuoluoni), imagined to work through such mediums as dust, shadow, and wind, confound the usual academic understandings of dharan&dotbelow;is. Focusing my study on this spell allows me to give a better account of the plastic and contingent nature of spells as Chinese Buddhists understood them---or at least as they wrote about them, put them into practice, and constructed them in material forms---as well as of their history in China and connections with native spell and talisman practices.
520 $a The first chapter is an introduction to the dissertation as a whole---including its theoretical problematics---and to the history of the Superlative Spell. Chapter Two is a study of the ways the Superlative Spell is described as a sensible object within the five versions of the Scripture of the Superlative Spell extant from the late seventh and early eighth centuries, as well as a consideration of what the structures and ethical outlooks of these texts reveal about the nature of the spell. Chapter Three is a study of traditional doctrinal works on the nature of dharan&dotbelow;is. Chapter Four explores how a set of eighth century glosses on the Superlative Spell construct it as a narrative of consecration, a prayer, and as a set of doctrinal propositions. The final two chapters concern the special logics and practices of inscribed spells. Chapter Five places descriptions of the workings of inscribed forms of the Superlative spell within larger literary and scriptural contexts. Chapter Six traces out the history of ideas of spell writing in Chinese Buddhism, from approximately 400 to 1100 CE. It describes three different models of dharan&dotbelow;i writing in this period and the two trajectories of influence that seem to have brought them about.
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