Body Incantatory: Spells and the Ritual Imagination in Medieval Chinese Buddhism PDF
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: TH E BODY INCANTATORY SPELLS AND TH E RITUAL IMAGINATION IN MEDIEVAL CHINESE BUDDHISM PAUL COPP THE BODY INCANTATORY the sheng yen series in chinese buddhist studies the sheng yen series in chinese buddhist studies chün-fang yü, series editor Following the endowment of the Sheng Yen Professorship in Chinese Buddhist Studies, the Sheng Yen Education Foundation and the Chung Hua Institute of Buddhist Studies in Taiwan jointly endowed a publication series, the Sheng Yen Series in Chinese Stud- ies, at Columbia University Press. Its purpose is to publish monographs containing new scholarship and English translations of classical texts in Chinese Buddhism. Scholars of Chinese Buddhism have traditionally approached the subject through philology, philosophy, and history. In recent decades, however, they have increasingly adopted an interdisciplinary approach, drawing on anthropology, archaeology, art history, religious studies, and gender studies, among other disciplines. This series aims to provide a home for such pioneering studies in the field of Chinese Buddhism. Michael J. Walsh, Sacred Economies: Buddhist Business and Religiosity in Medieval China Koichi Shinohara, Spells, Images, and Mandalas: Tracing the Evolution of Esoteric Buddhist Rituals Beverley Foulks McGuire, Living Karma: The Religious Practices of Ouyi Zhixu (1599–1655) : THE BODY INCANTATORY SPELLS AND THE RITUAL IMAGINATION IN MEDIEVAL CHINESE BUDDHISM PAUL COPP columbia university press————new york columbia university press publishers since 1893 new york chichester, west sussex cup.columbia.edu Copyright © 2014 Columbia University Press All rights reserved Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Copp, Paul F., 1965- author. The Body incantatory : spells and the ritual imagination in medieval Chinese Buddhism / Paul Copp. pages cm. — (The Sheng Yen series in Chinese Buddhist studies) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-231-16270-8 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-231-53778-0 (electronic) 1. Buddhist incantations—History. 2. Buddhism—China—Rituals—History. I. Title. BQ5535.C67 2014 294.3'438—dc23 2013036862 Columbia University Press books are printed on permanent and durable acid-free paper. This book is printed on paper with recycled content. Printed in the United States of America c 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Jacket Image: Madame Wei Mahāpratisarā amulet. Eighth century? Yale University Art Gallery (“Tantric Buddhist Charm,” 1955.7.1a). Hobart and Edward Small Moore Memorial Collection, bequest of Mrs. William H. Moore. Ink and colors on silk. 21.5 cm × 21.5 cm. References to websites (URLs) were accurate at the time of writing. Neither the author nor Columbia University Press is responsible for URLs that may have expired or changed since the manuscript was prepared. For Anna If one holds it to be self-evident that man is gratified by his fantasy, then one must consider that his fantasy is not like a painted picture, or a plastic model, but a complicated construction of heterogeneous components: words and images. Then one would not place operations with written and spoken signs in opposition to operations with “mental images” of events. We must plow through the complete language. —LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN, “Remarks on Frazer’s Golden Bough” I SING the Body electric; The armies of those I love engirth me, and I engirth them; They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them, And discorrupt them, and charge them full with the charge of the Soul. Was it doubted that those who corrupt their own bodies conceal themselves; And if those who defile the living are as bad as they who defile the dead? And if the body does not do as much as the Soul? And if the body were not the Soul, what is the Soul? . . . the body itself balks account. —WALT WHITMAN, Leaves of Grass [1881 ed.] CONTENTS List of Illustrations xi Preface: The Body Incantatory xiii Acknowledgments xxv Abbreviations xxix Introduction: Dhāranīs and the Study of Buddhist Spells 1 1. Scripture, Relic, Talisman, Spell 29 2. Amulets of the Incantation of Wish Fulfillment 59 3. Dust, Shadow, and the Incantation of Glory 141 4. Mystic Store and Wizards’ Basket 197 Coda: Material Incantations and the Study of Medieval Chinese Buddhism 227 Appendix 1. Suiqiu Amulets Discovered in China 233 Appendix 2. Stein no. 4690: Four Spells 239 Notes 241 Glossary 303 Sources 315 Index 347
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