 |
|
| Eminent Nuns and / or / as Virtuous Women: The Representation of Tang Female Renunciants in Tomb Inscriptions | ||
| 作者 | Pang, Shiying |
|---|---|
| 出處題名 | Tang Studies=唐學報 |
| 卷期 | v.2010 n.28 |
| 出版日期 | 2010 |
| 頁次 | 77 - 96 |
| 出版者 | Maney Publishing |
| 出版者網址 | http://www.maneyonline.com/loi/tng |
| 出版地 | Leeds, UK [里茲, 英國] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 關鍵詞 | Chinese Buddhism; Tang Dynasty; Tomb Inscription; Nun; Identity |
| 摘要 | This paper shows that tomb inscriptions provide detailed descriptions of the lives of Tang Buddhist nuns that complicate the exclusively divine representation in traditional Buddhist hagiographies. I suggest that tomb inscriptions, though highly formulaic, create such different images of female renunciants by rooting their religious practice in secular society and familial affiliations. I introduce the formula of tomb inscriptions for Tang female renunciants through a reading of a representative stele written for Huiyuan, an eighth-century nun from a prestigious and devoutly Buddhist family. I recount the effort of the inscription's author to incorporate the values of both Confucian historiography and Buddhist hagiography into a single "non-sectarian" composition. Attending next to biographical records of nuns associated with the Anguo Convent in Chang'an from the eighth century, I compare traditional biographies of exemplary women and Buddhist accounts of eminent nuns with the tomb inscriptions of deceased female renunciants. I conclude that tomb inscriptions amplify manifold life experiences and achievements of the female renunciants in the Tang Dynasty and therefore merit further scholarly investigation. |
| 目次 | The basic formula for composing tomb inscriptions 80 Reading female renunciants’ lives in different formats 85 Conclusion 92 Appendix: Epigraphic materials categorized by convents 94 Notes on contributor 96 |
| ISSN | 07375034 (P); 17597633 (E) |
| DOI | 10.1179/073750310X12865427716005 |
| 點閱次數 | 137 |
| 建檔日期 | 2017.02.17 |
| 更新日期 | 2020.05.21 |
建議您使用 Chrome, Firefox, Safari(Mac) 瀏覽器能獲得較好的檢索效果，IE不支援本檢索系統。
