Mahākāla Literature Unearthed from Karakhoto
In this chapter, I introduce the Tibetan Buddhist Tantric manuscripts associated with Mahākāla unearthed from Karakhoto, which are in both the Chinese and Tibetan languages and date from the 12th to the 14th centuries. Through a comparative study of these bilingual materials, I identify the correspo...
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| Language: | English |
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Brill
2022
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Dynamics in the history of religions
Year: 2022, Volume: 12, Pages: 400-429 |
| Further subjects: | B
Altaische & Ostasiatische Sprachen
B Asia B Sprache und Linguistik B Allgemein B Asien-Studien B Art history B Religionswissenschaften B Uralische B Ostasiatische Geschichte B History |
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| Summary: | In this chapter, I introduce the Tibetan Buddhist Tantric manuscripts associated with Mahākāla unearthed from Karakhoto, which are in both the Chinese and Tibetan languages and date from the 12th to the 14th centuries. Through a comparative study of these bilingual materials, I identify the corresponding Tibetan originals for the Chinese texts and, in so doing, determine the origin of the Mahākāla literature from Karakhoto. Thus, I conclude that the Tibetan Master Ga Lotsaba Zhönupel (1105/1110-1198/1202, Tib. rGwa lo tsā ba gZhon nu dpal) was connected with both the Chinese and Tibetan Mahākāla literature from Karakhoto. Then, by studying the biography of Ga Lotsaba, I reveal how he brought the Mahākāla teachings to the Tangut Empire (ca. 1038-1227, in Chinese sources known as Xixia 西夏) from India via Tibet. Lastly, I analyse one of the works Ga Lotsaba wrote about Mahākāla that was recovered from Karakhoto and shed further light on his role in the early textual transmission of Mahākāla. |
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/9789004508446_014 |