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The Five-Colored Clouds of Mount Wutai: Poems from Dunhuang

The Five-Colored Clouds of Mount Wutai: Poems from Dunhuang

Cartelli, Mary Anne

Hardcover

Literary CriticismPoetry AnthologiesBuddhism

ISBN10: 9004184813
ISBN13: 9789004184817
Publisher: Brill
Published: Dec 7 2012
Pages: 224
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.50
Language: English
In The Five-Colored Clouds of Mount Wutai: Poems from Dunhuang, Mary Anne Cartelli examines a set of poems from the Dunhuang manuscripts about Mount Wutai, the most sacred mountain in Chinese Buddhism. Dating from the Tang and Five Dynasties periods, they reflect the mountain's transformation into the home of the bodhisattva Mañjuśrī, and provide important literary evidence for the development of Buddhism in China. This interdisciplinary study analyzes the poems using Buddhist scriptures and pilgrimage records, as well as the contemporaneous wall-painting of Mount Wutai in Dunhuang cave 61. The poems demonstrate how the mountain was created as a sacred Buddhist space, as their motifs reflect the cosmology associated with the mountain by the Tang dynasty, and they vividly portray the experience of the pilgrim traveling through a divinely empowered landscape.

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