The Five-Colored Clouds of Mount Wutai: Poems from Dunhuang
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Author | : Mary Anne Cartelli |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 237 |
Release | : 2012-12-07 |
ISBN-10 | : 9789004184817 |
ISBN-13 | : 9004184813 |
Rating | : 4/5 (17 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis The Five-Colored Clouds of Mount Wutai: Poems from Dunhuang by : Mary Anne Cartelli
Book excerpt: In The Five-Colored Clouds of Mount Wutai: Poems from Dunhuang, Mary Anne Cartelli introduces a significant corpus of Chinese Buddhist poems from the Dunhuang manuscripts celebrating Mount Wutai. They offer important literary evidence for the transformation of the mountain into the earthly paradise of the bodhisattva MaƱju?r? by the Tang dynasty.????