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| For a Compassionate Killing: Chinese Buddhism, Sericulture, and the Silkworm God AŚvaghoṣa | ||
| 作者 | Young, Stuart H. |
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| 出處題名 | Journal of Chinese Religions=中國宗教研究集刊 |
| 卷期 | v.41 n.1 |
| 出版日期 | 2013.05 |
| 頁次 | 25 - 58 |
| 出版者 | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| 出版者網址 | https://www.press.jhu.edu/ |
| 出版地 | Baltimore, MD, US [巴爾的摩, 馬里蘭州, 美國] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 關鍵詞 | silk; Buddhism, sericulture; Baolin zhuan 寳林傳; Maming 馬鳴; Aśvaghoṣa |
| 摘要 | For thousands of years in China, silk producers have developed ritual technologies and pantheons of deities intended to ensure healthy silkworms and abundant silk crops. Buddhist rites and deities have likewise long served the commercial interests of Chinese religionists, but so far we have little understanding of the relationships between the Buddhist institution and the ubiquitous sericulture industry. This essay represents the initial stages of a larger effort to investigate these relationships in premodern China. Here I examine a specific instance in which Buddhism was promoted as integral to silk production—as the true origin of the sericulture process, as the proper moral and soteriological framework within which to understand silkworm rearing (and killing), and as the ritual tradition most efficacious for sericulturists. These claims were advanced in medieval Chinese sources depicting the ancient Indian Buddhist patriarch Aśvaghoṣa as a local god of silk. Through this figure in particular, whose equine associations linked him with age-old Chinese silkworm myths, Buddhist authors aimed to transform sericulture into an ancient Indian innovation that was fully accordant with traditional Buddhist norms and thus best served by the Chinese Buddhist institution. |
| ISSN | 0737769X (P); 20508999 (E) |
| 點閱次數 | 529 |
| 建檔日期 | 2015.06.15 |
| 更新日期 | 2020.04.16 |
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