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The Biography of the Buddha in Imperial China: Elite Monastic Sources The Biography of the Buddha in Imperial China: Elite Monastic Sources
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The Biography of the Buddha in Imperial China: Popular and Peripheral Sources The Biography of the Buddha in Imperial China: Popular and Peripheral Sources
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Ancient and Medieval Japanese Material Accounts of the Life of the Buddha Ancient and Medieval Japanese Material Accounts of the Life of the Buddha
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The Biography of the Buddha as Homiletic Text The Biography of the Buddha as Homiletic Text
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The Life of the Buddha in the Training of Young Monastics The Life of the Buddha in the Training of Young Monastics
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One The Buddha as Preceptor
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Published:December 2016
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Abstract
This chapter argues that, across the first millennium of representations of the life of the Buddha in Japan, writers and artists tended to hew closely to accounts received from the Asian continent. Individual scriptures in Chinese translation and encyclopedic Chinese compilations of scriptural material provided major sources for Japanese homiletic texts and their related tale literature, such as the long biography of the Buddha in the Konjaku monogatarishu. Likewise, material and ritual recreations of the life of the Buddha adhered closely to precedents that may be identified, or posited, for the clay dioramas at the temples Horyuji and Yakushiji; ancient illustrated handscrolls and medieval hanging scrolls; the illustrated “biography” of the “living” image of the Buddha at the temple Seiryoji; and the Shiza koshiki liturgy, composed by the monk Myoe Koben. These diverse works consistently expressed a “will to canonicity,” adducing authoritative sources to punctuate and support their narratives. Doctrinally, these biographies recapitulated the classification of Buddhist scriptures characteristic of Tendai Buddhism. Their Buddha was principally a pedagogue.
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