Buddhist Fund-Raising Poems and Other Lost Verses from Venerable Miaozhan's Gāthā (Printed 1142)
Buddhist fund-raising poetry lays at the intersection of literary arts, religious meaning making, and economic exchange. A twelfth-century woodblock print of Venerable Miaozhan's Gāthā 妙湛和尚偈頌 contains 180 previously lost poems by the Chan master Miaozhan Sihui 妙湛思慧 (1071-1145). Neither Venerabl...
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| Medienart: | Elektronisch Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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2023
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| In: |
History of religions
Jahr: 2023, Band: 63, Heft: 1, Seiten: 35-74 |
| normierte Schlagwort(-folgen): | B
Sri Lanka
/ Konflikt
/ Sufismus
/ Wallfahrt
/ Buddhismus
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Religionssoziologie; Religionspolitik AG Religiöses Leben; materielle Religion BJ Islam BL Buddhismus KBM Asien KCD Hagiographie; Heilige |
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| Zusammenfassung: | Buddhist fund-raising poetry lays at the intersection of literary arts, religious meaning making, and economic exchange. A twelfth-century woodblock print of Venerable Miaozhan's Gāthā 妙湛和尚偈頌 contains 180 previously lost poems by the Chan master Miaozhan Sihui 妙湛思慧 (1071-1145). Neither Venerable Miaozhan's Gāthā nor Miaozhan himself have previously been studied, likely because this rare text was in private collections until recently. Unusually, most of his poems are about fund-raising. This article introduces the text of Venerable Miaozhan's Gāthā and its author, as well as the social networks encoded in his poems. Then, I focus on verses about fund-raising, economic exchange, and the role of tea in donations. Socioeconomic changes after war, the economic practices of monastery estates, and fund-raising instructions in ritual handbooks all provide contexts that partially explain Miaozhan's fund-raising poetry. I interpret Miaozhan's fund-raising poems as a religioliterary technology that circulated into the world where it could participate in the fashioning of religious meaning amid economic relationships between the monastery and its patrons. |
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| ISSN: | 1545-6935 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: History of religions
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1086/725412 |