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NEW BOOK> Buddhist Stone Sutras in China 中國佛教石經. Sichuan 3
by Martin Bemmann
The Research Unit "Buddhist Stone Sutras in China" of the
Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften is pleased to announce the publication
of a new volume in the series:Buddhist Stone Sutras in China中國佛教石經. Series editor Lothar Ledderose.
Buddhist Stone Sutras in China:
Sichuan Province, Volume 3, Edited by Claudia Wenzel and Sun Hua
XII, 486 pages, 51 illustrations, and 199 plates.
Available for all continents except Asia through Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden:
http://www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/title_1674.ahtml
For Asian countries it is available through China Academy of Art Press, Hangzhou.
The third volume on the inscriptions carved in cave chapels at the Grove of the Reclining Buddha (Wofoyuan) in Anyue County, Sichuan, presents the earliest and central section of the precinct. Cave 46, which boasts a unique architecture, contains eight sutras carved in their entirety or in parts, and two dhāraṇī spells. As in former volumes, all engravings are fully reproduced in detailed, high quality photographs of the cave walls and of ink rubbings. The texts are transcribed for the first time, with a scholarly apparatus noting textual variants and variant characters in the calligraphy. Essays highlight the significance of particular text versions and point out unexpected insights in this treasure store of texts.
They are: Jingtai’s Catalog of All Canonical Scriptures (T#2148; essay by Stefano Zacchetti); scroll 22 of the Great Parinirvāṇa Sutra (T#374); the apocryphal Sutra on the Wisdom Stored in the Ocean of Buddha-nature (T#2885; essay by Chen Frederick Shih-Chung); the Diamond Sutra (T#235); the Sutra of the Glorious Buddha Crown Dhāraṇī and the Spell of the Glorious Buddha Crown Dhāraṇī (T#967; essay by Manuel Sassmann and Tsai Suey-Ling); the apocryphal Sutra Spoken by the Buddha on the Perfection of Wisdom in the Sutras (essay by Ryan Richard Ov erbey and English translation); the Amitābha Sutra (T#366; essay by Claudia Wenzel); the Spell Spoken by Buddha Amitābha (T#369; essay by Tsai Suey-ling and Claudia Wenzel). In addition, cave 51 contains scroll 14 of the Great Parinirvāṇa Sutra (T#374). This sutra will be treated in the next volume. An essay by Martin Bemmann is dedicated to an exquisitely carved life-prolonging banner and its ritual uses. Lothar Ledderose introduces the volume. It is in Chinese and English throughout.
Fields of interest:
Chinese Buddhism, Japanese Buddhism, Chinese history, epigraphy, script
Best Wishes,
Martin Bemmann
Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Germany
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