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| Precious Scroll of the Ten Kings in the Suzhou Area of China: with Changshu Funerary Storytelling as an Example | ||
| 作者 | Berezkin, Rostislav |
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| 出處題名 | Archiv orientální=Oriental Archive : Journal of African and Asian Studies |
| 卷期 | v.84 n.2 |
| 出版日期 | 2016 |
| 頁次 | 381 - 412 |
| 出版者 | Oriental Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences |
| 出版者網址 | http://www.orient.cas.cz |
| 出版地 | Prague, Czech [布拉格, 捷克] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 關鍵詞 | baojuan (precious scrolls); Chinese Buddhism; folk beliefs; storytelling; rituals; folklore |
| 摘要 | This paper examines the connections to be found between the cult of the Ten Kings of the underworld and the practice of baojuan storytelling (“telling scriptures,” or scroll recitation) in the Suzhou area of Jiangsu province. In some places, notably the city of Changshu, the stories devoted to the Ten Kings are recited during funerary services for the dead and are combined with the ritual actions aimed at salvation of the dead soul (i.e., with the object of obtaining a better form of rebirth for the deceased in the next life). These practices and related narratives have local specifics. They have been known since the 19th century, but rarely have been documented in historical sources. This paper is largely based on the results of the author’s fieldwork in several areas of Suzhou, where this storytelling has survived until the present, in addition to materials preserved in libraries. It focuses on discussion of the origins, special features, and religious affiliation of these funerary performances, taking the Changshu tradition as an example. The author also analyzes the meaning of this ritualized storytelling in comparison with funerary rites and performances in other areas of China and applies to it universal ritual theory. Funerary baojuan performances constitute a part of the complex “ritual event” that involves several groups of religious specialists and texts and rituals of different origins, and that has important social functions in the communities in which they are practiced. |
| ISSN | 00448699 (P) |
| 點閱次數 | 117 |
| 建檔日期 | 2017.05.10 |
| 更新日期 | 2019.11.19 |
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