A Buddhist Bhairava?: Kṛtanagara’s Tantric Buddhism in Transregional Perspective
This article discusses some key aspects of the historical and religious background of the period of Kṛtanagara and his aftermath in East Java and Sumatra. Our analysis is based on a comparative study of Sanskrit, Old Javanese, and Tibetan textual sources and artistic vestiges ("medias") to...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2022
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Entangled Religions
Year: 2022, Volume: 13, Issue: 7 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Kertanagara, Singhasari, König -1292
/ Singhasari
/ Statue
/ Religious policy
/ Vajrayāna
/ Hinduism
/ Foreign policy
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| IxTheo Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AF Geography of religion AG Religious life; material religion AX Inter-religious relations BK Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism BL Buddhism KBM Asia RA Practical theology TE Middle Ages |
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Bhairava
B Kṛtanagara B Tantric Buddhism B Ādityavarman B Mañjuśrī B Kublai Khan B Gur gyi mgon po B Pañjaranātha Mahākāla |
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| Summary: | This article discusses some key aspects of the historical and religious background of the period of Kṛtanagara and his aftermath in East Java and Sumatra. Our analysis is based on a comparative study of Sanskrit, Old Javanese, and Tibetan textual sources and artistic vestiges ("medias") to highlight the transregional networks of tantric Buddhism ("traditions") that may have contributed to shape the king’s religio-political agenda. Having identified the enigmatic colossal statue at Padang Roco/Sungai Langsat in Dharmasraya (Central-Western Sumatra) as a Mahākāla bearing Śaiva iconographic contaminations, and as a product of Siṅhasāri-period East Java from Sino-Tibetan prototypes, we revive Moens’ (1924: 557) idea of an association between the icon and Kṛtanagara. Adding to the discussion on the Eastern Indian-style icon of Arapacana Mañjuśrī found near Candi Jago, we highlight further parallels that complement and fine-tune the idea advanced by previous scholars about the commonality of the tantric Buddhist paradigms practiced at the courts of Kṛtanagara and Kublai Khan, and propose that their legacy was adopted by the political elites of the subsequent generation in both Nusantara and China. |
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| ISSN: | 2363-6696 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Entangled Religions
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.46586/er.13.2022.9653 |