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100 _aWalser, Joseph
245 _aGenealogies of Mahayana Buddhism
_b Emptiness, Power and the Question of Origin
260 _aNew York
_bRoutledge
_c2018
300 _a291p
500 _aincludes index and biblioraphy
505 2 _aPart I Genealogies of Mahayana ......1 1 Introduction: On origins and genealogies .....3 2 Mahayana in retrospect: from my house to the Dalai Lama (looking back from 2017 to 1930) ......11 Assessing the essence ......20 Tibet as buddhist: Tracing the lines of power .....21 Emptiness and the analytic of power ......25 Inculcating dispositions to authority: The kalacakra .....31 3 Mahayana in the republic, Mahayana in the empire: Tracing religion from republican China to the early qing dynasty ((1920s-1723) ......40 Religion vs. superstition in 20th -century east asia ......41 The fin de siecle turning point .....44 The qing imperium and the usefulness of Mahayana ....48 The younghegong temple in Beijing and the political work of monuments ......48 Emperor qianlong: The tantric initiate and the tantric state .......53 Tantra, emptiness and the reincarnate emperoe/lama, or why it`s never too late to have a venerable past ......57 Yongzheng emperor and the great ming debate .......60 4 The image of emptiness across the landscape of power (China: 11th century BCE - 15th century CE) .....72 The ancestor image ......75 The image of emptiness: Di space and the celestical pole .......76 The image of the earth and control of the cults .....85 Exorcism and the state: When possession is nine-tenths .....88 Religion in the service of taxation ......90 Buddhist exorcism and the heart of Mahavana ....91 Conclusion ....93 5 Buddha veda: An indian genealogy of emptiness (20th century - sixth century CE) ......99 Emptriness and power in Orissa: From Mahima Dharma Sampradaya to Jagannatha of puri .....100 Buddhism and Brahmanism in Maitripa (ca.1010-1097 CE) .....105 Bhaviveka`s sixth-century Mahayana ......111 Bhaviveka, Mahavana and Yogacara ....116 Bhaviveka, Mahavana and brahmanism ......118 Preliminary conclusion .....123 Part II The genealogy of the perfection of wisdom ....127 6 What did the text of the perfection of wisdom look like? .....129 The versions ....129 The quest for the ur-sutra .....130 The core pericope .....134 The ending .......137 Subhuti`s non-apprehension ......138 The mindlessness section and its relation to the irreversibility section .....143 The message of the original perfection of wisdom .....149 Mahayana .....151 Bodhisattvas ......152 What`s missing .....154 7 Mahayana sutra as palimpsest: Discerning traces of the tripitaka ......158 Beyond origin as mere advent .....158 Heteroglossia and textual rationable ......160 Intertextuality and adaptation in buddhist literature .....162 The non-apprehension section and its intertexts ......163 Sermon on selflessness .....164 Nominalism ......166 Cessation of cognition .....168 Selflessness ....but differently .....170 The perfected as untraceable ......172 Fearlessness .....177 Abhidharma echoes ....181 Conclusion: The perfection of wisdom ......183 8 Palimpsest II: brahmanical writings on the tripitaka ....190 The importance of incoherence .....190 The context of abhidharma literature .....192 The context of other schools ......195 The context of luminous thought and varieties of unware thought .....195 The context of acitta neither existing nor not existing as anti-brahmanical dependent-origination ......198 The context of absence of mental construction (avikalpa) .....200 Nirvikalpa ....202 Brahmanical intertexts and their implications .....205 9 Placing early Mahayana ......222 Placing the perfection of wisdom in the early Mahayana suite .....223 Manjuri`s inquiry concerning the office of the bodhisattva sutra .....226 Placing the early perfection of wisdom ....229 Mistaken sounds ....232 Subhuti`s aranavihara: preaching or penetration .....234 Emptiness, Brahmin nuns, tulkus and the power of possession ....238 Putting it together .....240 Conclusion ....242 10 On sites and stakes: meditation on emptiness and imperial aspirations ......246
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