Building a Sacred Mountain: The Buddhist Architecture of China's Mount Wutai

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313 INDEX Bright Hall (Mingtang) 26, 26fig. Buddhaghosa, 223n66 buddhānusmṛti (C: nianfo) meditation, 32, 33 Buddhapālita legend, and Sutra of the Superlative Dhāraṇi, 117–19, 126, 128, 138–43, 160–61 Buddha’s Radiance (Foguangsi) Monastery. See Foguang Monastery “Buddha’s shadow” painting, at Nagarahāra, 55 Buddha’s true teaching: decline of, 59–60, 64, 65–67, 82–83, 89–90, 92, 102, 125; extinction of (see mofa); flowering of (zhengfa), 59. Buddha’s words and images, recorded on stone, 66–67 Buddha triad. See Amitābha; Maitryea; Śākyamuni Buddhist charitable society (yiyi), 36 buddhakṣetra (Pure Land), 110, 142, 143 Bukong (Amoghavajra), 131–32, 133, 139–43, 147, 149, 211 busa (confession and ritual of repentance), 28, 29, 34 cakravartin (universal monarch) 142, 248n49; Empress Wu Zetian as, 115–16, 119 Candragarbha Sutra (Yuezang fen jing), 82, 83, 85–86 Cao Yuanzhong, 176, 178 Casual Revelations of the Thirty-Seven Divinities of the Yoga of the Vajra Crown (Jin’gang ding yuqie sanshiqi zun chusheng yi), 147 Chan Buddhism, place-specificity and sacredness in, 90 Chang’an: Bright Hall (Mingtang), 26, 26fig.; Famen Monastery relics, 116; Guangzhai relics, 116; Huichang Monastery, 93; Jetavana Monastery, similarities to, 104–5; Ximing Monastery, 154 chan (meditative visualization), 30–35, 58, 63, 83 Chengguan, 128–29, 237n52, 251n8 Chōnen, 187–88 Chongfu Monastery (Chongfusi), in Taiyuan, 120, 246n9 Chuntuo, 144 circumambulation, 26–27, 28–30, 42, 47, 49 ci, to signify presence of local deity, 22 Cloister of Dharma Blossom (Fahua Yuan), 122, 123 “cloud vehicle,” in Mogao cave murals, 174, 176–77, 184–85 Collection of Coded Instructions (Tuoluoni ji jing), 135 Abridged Method of Meditation (Siwei lüeyao fa), 32 Abridged Records (Lüezhuan) of Mount Wutai (by Huize), 93–94, 98, 99, 103, 114, 117 Ajātaśatru, 230n81 Akṣobhya, 137–38, 147 Amitābha Buddha, 7, 10–11, 11fig., 31–32, 33, 55, 138, 147; miraculous appearance at Tongzi Monastery, 80; Pure Land (Sukhāvatī), 32, 33, 61, 68, 82, 125, 126–27, 199; Sutra on Visualizing the Amitāyus Buddha, 33, 107fig., 188–89, 189fig. Amitābha Sutra (Amituo jing), 32 Amoghasiddhi, 138, 147 Amoghavajra (Bukong), 131–32, 133, 139–43, 144, 145, 147, 149, 211 Ancient Records of Monasteries (Gu qielan zhuan), 122 Ancient Records of [Mount] Qingliang (Gu Qingliang zhuan) (by Huixiang), 60–61, 63, 64, 81, 89–92, 91map, 93, 95, 95map, 98–99, 108, 111, 114, 117, 120, 153 An Sheng, 96 Aśoka (Ayuwang), 19, 21–22, 55, 119 auspicious images (ruixiang), in Dunhuang, 174–78, 191, 192fig. auspicious signs (maṅ gala), in Xiaonanhai Central Cave, 70, 78 auspicious terrains (fudi), 56 Avalokiteśvara (Guanyin), 24, 79, 81, 90, 186–87fig., 189, 215n8 Ayuwang (Aśoka), 19, 21–22, 55, 119 Bamboo Grove Monastery of the Great Sage (Dasheng Zhulin Zhi Si), 124, 125, 211 Banruosi (Monastery of Prajñā), 123 Baopuzi (The Master Who Embraces Simplicity) (by Ge Hong), 1, 52, 56 Baoshan, Dazhusheng Cave. See Dazhusheng Cave Bhaiṣajyaguru, 181fig., 199 Bingzhou, 63, 64, 65map, 242n41 Bodhidharma, 49 bodhimaṇḍa (dharma field), 30, 85, 110 Bodhiruci, 46, 134–35. See also Commentary on Ten Stages Sutra, 46, 62, 222n59 Bolun, 118 Brāhmana Jātaka, 69fig., 70, 230n80 INDEX 314 Commentary on Ten Stages Sutra (Shidi jing lun), 46, 62, 222n59 Commentary on the Waterways Classic (Shuijing zhu) (by Li Daoyuan), 43, 60–61, 227n26, 246n13 confession and ritual of repentance (S: posadha; C: busa), 28, 29, 34 crow-head gate (wutoumen), 104fig., 105 Dafangguang fo huayan jing (Flower Garland Sutra). See Flower Garland Sutra Da Fodian (Great Buddha Hall), Foguang Monastery. See Foguang Monastery Great Buddha Hall Dafu (Lingjiu) Monastery (Monastery of Great Faith [in Vulture Peak]), in Taihuai, 92, 93, 95, 96, 103; as Huayan Monastery. See Huayan Monastery Daizong, Emperor, 131, 140, 141, 154, 155 Dali Fahua Monastery, 4map, 124, 129, 132, 133map, 159 Daoan, 53–55; Regulations for Monastics (Sengni guifan), 28, 30–31, 237n60 daochang (bodhimaṇḍa) (dharma field), 30, 85, 110 Daoism, 52–53, 56, 241n13 Daoping, 62, 83 Daoshi, 102; Jade Grove of the Dharma Garden (Fayuan zhulin), 19, 23, 25, 27 Daoxuan, 28, 99, 122; Exhortation on Manners and Etiquette for Novices in Training (Jiaojie xinxue biqiu xinghu lüyi), 106–7; Four-Part Vinaya, 102; Illustrated Scripture of Jetavana Monastery (Zhong tianzhu sheweiguo Qiyuansi tujing), 103–6, 104fig., 107, 110, 125; miracle tales, collection of, 103 Daoyi, 123, 131, 143–44 Dasheng Zhulin Zhi...