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Creating Amitabha: The Deification of Yongming Yanshou from the Wuyue to the Ming.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Creating Amitabha: The Deification of Yongming Yanshou from the Wuyue to the Ming./
Author:	Baldry, T. Adam.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2018,
Description:	61 p.
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 58-04.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International58-04(E).
Subject:	Asian studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=13423418
ISBN:	9780438802223

Creating Amitabha: The Deification of Yongming Yanshou from the Wuyue to the Ming.
Baldry, T. Adam.

Creating Amitabha: The Deification of Yongming Yanshou from the Wuyue to the Ming. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2018 - 61 p.

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 58-04.

Thesis (M.A.)--The University of Arizona, 2018.

Yongming Yanshou (904-975) was an influential Buddhist figure during the Wuyue Period (907-978) known for his writings, teachings, and tenure as abbot at Lingyin Temple [Special characters omitted] and Yongming Temple [Special characters omitted] (later known as Jingci Temple [Special characters omitted]). A look at his early biographies, such as his biography included in the Song gaoseng zhuan [Special characters omitted] [Song Biographies of Eminent Monks] (988), indicates that he was an eminent monk worthy of veneration. Yet, by the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) the narrative surrounding his life had changed significantly. He was being claimed as an incarnation of Amitabha Buddha and was worshiped as such. This study attempts to discover how this drastic change to Yanshou's narrative developed. By tracing through Yanshou's biographies it is evident his narrative was manipulated, growing his spiritual powers and abilities, slowly deifying him in the process. By the time of the Ming Dynasty these changes to Yanshou's narrative had been fossilized. Three individuals named Yuanjin Dahuo (1576-1627), Yu Chunxi (jinshi 1583), and Huang Ruheng (1558-1626) were deeply influenced by the Yanshou they knew in the Ming. After rediscovering Yanshou's relics, these three individuals produced a new biography of Yanshou, the Yongming daoji [Special characters omitted] [Traces of Yongming's Path] (1607), as an effort to raise funds to build a new stupa for Yanshou at Jingci Temple. Within the Yongming daoji, and in later records surrounding the building of Yanshou's stupa that are collected in the Chijian jingci sizhi [Special characters omitted] [Officially Built Jingci Temple Monastic Gazetteer] (1805), Dahuo, Yu, and Huang claimed Yanshou was an incarnation of Amitabha Buddha, Dahuo being the first to do so. Yu and Huang later interpolated Yanshou's narrative by including four known figures as other incarnations of Yanshou and Amitabha (two having lived before Yanshou's birth and two living after his death). By placing Yanshou within a series of incarnations Yu and Huang were able to solidify their claim of Yanshou as an incarnation of Amitabha. Yanshou was thereby fully deified into Amitabha during the Ming Dynasty.

ISBN: 9780438802223Subjects--Topical Terms:

1571829
Asian studies.

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