Worldly Saviors and Imperial Authority in Medieval Chinese Buddhism

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Worldly Saviors and the Chinese Imperial Landscape -- Chapter 1. Worldly Saviors in Apocalyptic Scriptures -- Chapter 2. Rebels, Imperial Symbols, and Worldly Saviors -- Chapter 3. Yang Jian as the Worldly Savior Prince Moo...

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Κύριος συγγραφέας: Hughes, April D (Συγγραφέας)
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Έκδοση: Honolulu University of Hawaii Press [2021]
Στο/Στη:Έτος: 2021
Κριτικές:[Rezension von: Hughes, April D., Worldly saviors and imperial authority in medieval Chinese Buddhism] (2022) (Eichman, Jennifer Lynn, 1960 -)
Άλλες λέξεις-κλειδιά:B Asia / China / HISTORY
B China politics
B Buddhism and state (China) History
B Buddhism
B world saviors
B Buddhism (China) History 581-960
B Sui Wendi Empress of China (541-604)
B Confucianism
B Wu hou Empress of China (624-705)
B China history
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520 |a Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Worldly Saviors and the Chinese Imperial Landscape -- Chapter 1. Worldly Saviors in Apocalyptic Scriptures -- Chapter 2. Rebels, Imperial Symbols, and Worldly Saviors -- Chapter 3. Yang Jian as the Worldly Savior Prince Moonlight -- Chapter 4. Wu Zhao as the Worldly Saviors Maitreya and Pure Light -- Chapter 5. Wu Zhao as a Wheel-Turning King and the Worldly Savior Moonlight -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- About the Author 
520 |a Although scholars have long assumed that early Chinese political authority was rooted in Confucianism, rulership in the medieval period was not bound by a single dominant tradition. To acquire power, emperors deployed objects and figures derived from a range of traditions imbued with religious and political significance. Author April D. Hughes demonstrates how dynastic founders like Wu Zhao (Wu Zetian, r. 690-705), the only woman to rule China under her own name, and Yang Jian (Emperor Wen, r. 581-604), the first ruler of the Sui dynasty, closely identified with Buddhist worldly saviors and Wheel-Turning Kings to legitimate their rule. During periods of upheaval caused by the decline of the Dharma, worldly saviors arrived on earth to quell chaos and to rule and liberate their subjects simultaneously. By incorporating these figures into the imperial system, sovereigns were able to depict themselves both as monarchs and as Buddhas or Bodhisattvas in uncertain times. In this inventive and original work, Hughes traces worldly saviors-in particular Maitreya Buddha and Prince Moonlight-as they appeared in apocalyptic scriptures from Dunhuang, claims to the throne made by various rebel leaders, and textual interpretations and assertions by Yang Jian and Wu Zhao. Yang Jian associated himself with Prince Moonlight and took on the persona of a Wheel-Turning King whose offerings to the Buddha were not flowers and incense but weapons of war to reunite a long-fragmented empire and revitalize the Dharma. Wu Zhao was associated with several different worldly savior figures. In addition, she saw herself as the incarnation of a Wheel-Turning King for whom it was said the Seven Treasures manifested as material representations of his right to rule. Wu Zhao duly had the Seven Treasures created and put on display whenever she held audiences at court. The worldly savior figure allowed rulers to inhabit the highest role in the religious realm along with the supreme role in the political sphere. This incorporation transformed notions of Chinese imperial sovereignty, and associating rulers with a Buddha or Bodhisattva continued long after the close of the medieval period 
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