Entering the Dharmadhātu: A Study of the Gandavyūha Reliefs of BorobudurBRILL, 20.03.2012 - 272 Seiten The Gandavyūha, a sacred text of Mahāyāna Buddhism, is an allegorical tale of the pilgrimage of a youth named Sudhana, who visits fifty-three spiritual mentors to receive their instruction in the Conduct of the Bodhisattva. His miraculous journey on the path towards Enlightenment inspired the sculptors of Borobudur (9th century C.E.) to illustrate the tale in 460 bas-reliefs on the higher galleries of this great Javanese monument. During the 1920s N.J. Krom and F.D.K. Bosch identified many of the panels, but most of their findings, written in Dutch, remained unnoticed. Entering the Dharmadhātu compares the complete set of panels with three early Chinese translations of Central Asian and Indian Sanskrit manuscripts of the Gandavyūha. This first identification of the entire series in English concludes with a discussion of the new perspectives on the meaning, symbolism, and architecture of Borobudur that a reading of the Gandavyūha suggests. |
Inhalt
Introduction | 1 |
A Short History of the Identification of the Gandavyūha Reliefs of Borobudur | 2 |
Textual Variants of the Gandavyūha and the Reliefs of Borobudur | 9 |
THE GANDAVYŪHA RELIEFS OF BOROBUDUR | 15 |
Prologue II1II15 | 17 |
Pilgrimage First Series II16II72 | 27 |
The Pilgrimage Second Series II73II128 | 53 |
Third Gallery Main Wall III1III88 | 69 |
Text and Image at Borobudur | 149 |
Comments on the Reliefs of the Second Gallery Main Wall | 153 |
Comments on the Reliefs of the Third Gallery and the Fourth Balustrade | 163 |
The Bhadracarī Reliefs IV1IV88 | 171 |
Comments on the Bhadracarī Reliefs | 199 |
Epilogue | 209 |
Note on the Reliefs of the Second Balustrade | 241 |
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Third Gallery Balustrade IIIB1IIIB88 | 103 |
Fourth Gallery Balustrade IVB1IVB84 | 123 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Amitābha apparitions architectural Āśā Avalokiteśvara Avatamsaka-sūtra Bhadracarī bhiksu Bodhisattva Borobudur reliefs Bosch Brahman Buddha Buddhist building chief protagonist Chinese translations Cleary countless decoration described Dharma dharmacakra-mudrā Ehman Enlightenment entire figures flowers fourth gallery galleries of Borobudur Gandavyūha Gandavyūha reliefs gifts Heaven hidden base Hikata identification jātakas Javanese jewels Jinas kalyānamitras Kāmadhātu Karmavibhanga reliefs King Krom Krom’s Lalitavistara Lokapālas lotus Lotus Sūtra Mahāyāna Maitreya Mañjuśrī Māra Māyā meditation mentioned miracles monks monument mudrā nāgas Night Goddess nirvāna ofthe palace panels Parisian Sanskrit passage pavilion pay homage perhaps persons pilgrim possible Prajñā’s rebirth relief shows reliefs illustrating reliefs of Borobudur represent right hand Śakra samādhi Samantabhadra Sanskrit Sanskrit manuscripts Sanskrit text scholars scriptures sculptors of Borobudur seated second balustrade second gallery second main wall sequence series of reliefs shown statues story stūpa Sudhana visits suggests sūtra Tathāgatas terraces tion trees Vairocana verse viewer vimoksa visual vitarka-mudrā worship