Avatamsaka Buddhism in East Asia
Subtitle: Huayan, Kegon, Flower Ornament Buddhism : origins and adaptation of a visual culture
By: edited by Robert Gimello, Frédéric Girard and Imre Hamar
Contributors: Gimello, Robert M., 1942- editor; Girard, Frédéric, editor; Hamar, Imre, editor
Series: Asiatische Forschungen -- 155
Publisher: Harrassowitz Verlag
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Wiesbaden
Language: eng
Number of pages: 412
ISBN-13: 9783447066785
Subjects: Hua yan Buddhism; Avata.msaka-sūtra; Congresses
Notes: Papers presented at the Second International Huayan Symposium, Paris, Boutigny-sur-Essonne, 7th-10th August 2008.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Frédéric Girard; title: I. The origins of Huayan thought. What is the meaning of studying Huayan philosophy in today's global world? / Kimura Kiyotaka; title: Sanskrit fragments of the Buddhāvataṃsaka from Central Asia / Hori Shinʼichirō; title: Śākyamuni and Viarocana / Ōtake Susumu; title: II. The expansion of Huayan in Chinese culture. A) The interpretations of mind-only thought. Deconstructing and reconstructing Yogācāra : ten levels of consciousness-only/one-mind in Huayan Buddhism / Imre Hamar; title: The relation between empiness and mind-only according to the life of the Bodhisattva as described in the Avataṃsaka-sūtra / Kim-May Hyung-Hi; title: B) Huayan in the margins. The three truths in Huayan thought / Peter Gregory; title: Huayan thought in a northern Song Chan text : the Zuting shiyuan / Huang Yi-hsun; title: The teaching of Daoshen in Tangut translation : the Mirror of mind / Kirill J. Solonin; title: The relationship between Zhu Xi and Anti-Zhu Xi doctrine and Huayan (Kegon) doctrine in China and Japan / Tsuchida Kenjirō; title: III. The adaptation of a visual culture in China, Korea and Japan. A) An iconographical transplantation. The development of images depicting the teaching of the Avataṃsaka-sūtra / Manabe Shunshō; title: The art of Avataṃsaka Buddhism at the courts of Empress Wu and Emperor Shōmu/Empress Kōmyō / Dorothy C. Wong; title: Vairocana Buddha in Korea / Park Hyounggook; title: B) The transplantation of a doctrinal model. The reign of Emperor Shōmu and the Flower Ornament Sūtra / Morimoto Kōsei; title: The Treatise of the golden lion attributed to Fazang in China and Japan / Frédéric Girard; title: Kūkai's esotericism and Avataṃsaka thought / Takemura Makio.