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| Patterns of Ritual Engagements between Buddhist Religious Centres and Their Non-monastic Devotees in the Religious Space of Some Excavated Buddhist Sites of Early medieval Bihar and Bengal: A Study with Particular Reference to the Cult of Votive... | ||
| 作者 | Prasad, Birenda Nath (著) |
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| 出處題名 | Journal of the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies |
| 卷期 | v.17 |
| 出版日期 | 2019.11 |
| 頁次 | 144 - 192 |
| 出版者 | Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies |
| 出版者網址 | https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/how-get-here |
| 出版地 | Oxford, UK [牛津, 英國] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 摘要 | Patterns of Ritual Engagements between Buddhist Religious Centres and Their Non-monastic Devotees in the Religious Space of Some Excavated Buddhist Sites of Early medieval Bihar and Bengal: A Study with Particular Reference to the Cult of Votive Stūpas, Votive Terracotta Plaques and Votive Tablets. Through an analysis of the spatial distribution pattern of the published corpus of votive stūpas, votive terracotta plaques and tablets in the religious space of excavated Buddhist religious centres of early medieval Bihar and Bengal, this paper attempts to analyse the patterns of ritual engagements between Buddhist religious centres of this area and their non-monastic non-aristocratic devotees. We have argued that Buddhist religious centres of Magadha made determined efforts of attracting and retaining pilgrimage by non-monastic non-aristocratic devotees by offering the most sacred spots within their religious space to non-monastic devotees for ritual activities. The pattern was fundamentally different in Bengal, where most of the excavated monastic centres largely functioned as political institutions, established and patronized by their political patrons, who established them for political motives. These monastic centres of Bengal did not feel the need of entering into ritual engagements with nonaristocratic devotees. With different kinds of support systems, the process of the decline of Buddhism in early medieval Bihar and Bengal could not have been the same. |
| 目次 | Introduction 145 Early Medieval Buddhist monasteries as nuclei of 'institutional esoterism' and the question of the access of non-monastic devotees to the monastic religious space in early medieval Bihar and Bengal 147 Votive stupas, votive terracotta plaques and votive tablets as archaeological markers of pilgrimage to Buddhist religious centres 149 Spatial alignment of votive stupas within the Mahabodhicomplex and its implications for the organization of religious space 153 The social background and expectations of donors who donated votive stupas at the Mahabodhi as reflected in dedicatory inscriptions 155 Inscriptions on terracotta votive tablets from Bodh Gaya and the social background of some pilgrims to the Mahabodhi 158 Pilgrims' mementos: the case of the miniature models of the Mahabodhi temple 162 Spatial alignment of votive stupas and the articulation of monastic religious space within the Nalanda Mahavihara 163 Pilgrims' mementos or dedications: the case of votive terracotta plaques from Nalanda 168 Spatial alignment of votive stupas and the question of accessibility of monastic religious space by non-monastic devotees at Antichak 169 Spatial alignment of votive stupas and the question of accessibility of monastic religious space by non-monastic devotees in Varendra monasteries (other than Paharpur) 172 Spatial alignment of votive stupas and the question of accessibility of monastic religious space by non-monastic devotees at Paharour 175 Spatial alignment of votive stupas and the question of accessibility of monastic religious space by non-monastic devotees at Moghalmari 179 Spatial alignment of votive stupas and the question of accessibility of monastic religious space by non-monastic devotees in the case of Buddhist monasteries on the Mainamati-Lalmai ridge 179 Summing up: differential petterns of alignment of votive stupas in Bihar and Bengal and their implications 183 |
| ISSN | 20471076 (P) |
| 點閱次數 | 221 |
| 建檔日期 | 2022.04.14 |
| 更新日期 | 2022.04.14 |
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