From Jetavana to Jerusalem: Sacred Biography in Asian Perspectives and Beyond, Essays in Honour of Professor Phyllis Granoff

Edited by Jinhua CHEN
Series: Hualin Series on Buddhist Studies VII
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-17276-7-2
Paperback ISBN: 978-981-17281-9-8
Publishing Date: 2022
Publisher: World Scholastic Publishers
Pages: 887
Table of Contents
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- Preface: Hualin Series on Buddhist Studies (by ZHAN Ru)
- A Bibliography of the Publications by Professor Phyllis Granoff
- A Recent Photo of Professor Phyllis Granoff
- An Extol Dedicated to Professor Phyllis Granoff (by CHEN Jinhua)
- Conventions
Volume I
- The Buddha’s Lives, Told and Retold
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- 1.1. Material Choices
Robert L. BROWN
- 1.2. Autobiographical Potency: A First-person Formula on the Buddha’s Path to Enlightenment
Eviatar SHULMAN
- 1.3. Borges, Buddha’s Life Story, and the transmission of Buddhism to Latin America
Margarita DELGADO CREAMER
- Biographies Built and Rebuilt
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- 2.1. Swimming with the Masters: Sacred Biographies and Hallowed Figures
Michael NYLAN & Martin J. VERHOEVEN
- 2.2. Becoming Vimalakīrti on His Chamber
ZHAO You
- 2.3. Secularizing the Sacred?: Wang Yucheng’s Biography of Buddhist Master Zanning
Albert WELTER
- History and His Stories
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- 3.1. In-Between Biography: Ramacharana’s Shankaradeva and Amar Singh’s Surdas
John Stratton HAWLEY
- 3.2. The Brahmin who Buried His Gods: Apatt’ Aṭīri’s Story of Myself
David SHULMAN
- 3.3. A Mad Monk? A Sacred Monk?: Holy Path of Chan Master Yan Fahua in Northern Song Dynasty
GE Zhouzi
- 3.4. The Account of How Nichiren Miraculously Escaped Beheading and Its Modern Critics: History and Hagiography in a Japanese Buddhist Tradition
Jacqueline I. STONE
- Between and Beyond Secular and Sacred
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- 4.1. The Perils of Prediction: A Jain Demonology of Varāhamihira
Marko GESLANI
- 4.2. ‘This King Is He’: An 11th Century Pukkan Monarch’s Carte de Visite
Lilian HANDLIN
- 4.3. Trajectories of Past Lives and the Formation of an Imperial Landscape: An Exploration of Hagiographies in a Medieval Japanese Esoteric Buddhist Text
Yagi MORRIS
Volume II
- Women Biographized
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- 5.1. The Women Who Mastered Pāli
Alexandra KALOYANIDES
- 5.2. Abductions of women, narratives and identities: The Earliest Rāmāyaṇa Depictions in Indian Art
Naman P. AHUJA
- 5.3. Princess Miaoshan, Self-immolator?
James A. BENN
- 5.4. Displaying Her Decaying Body: Women and Embodied Exemplarity in the Qing Biographies
MA Xu
- Biographies Built and Rebuilt
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- 6.1. The Pilgrim of a Buddhist Criminal: Xuanzang (602–664) and His Illegal Travel to India
LIU Cuilan
- 6.2. Reports of Japanese Monks in China: Accounts in the Nittō Guhō Junrei Kōki 入唐求法巡禮行記 [Record of Travel to the Tang in Search of the Dharma] by Ennin 圓仁 (794–864)
Jeffrey KOTYK
- 6.3. rGwa Lotsāba gZhon nu dpal and the Spread of The Mahākāla Teachings in Eastern Central Asia
HOU Haoran
- 6.4. Ruan and Liang Buddhas from China to India
ZHANG Xing
- History and His Stories
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- 7.1. Belief beyond Affiliation, Affiliation beyond Belief: The Theft of an Icon of Buddha by the Vaiṣṇava Devout Poet Parakāla as Described in the Divyasūricarita
Gérard COLAS
- 7.2. Naked Heretics: On the Representation of Jains in Chinese Buddhist Texts
Max DEEG
- 7.3. A Vinaya Lineage and a Vinaya Master’s Life Constructed by a Tang Bureaucrat, General and Calligrapher: Yan Zhenqing 顏真卿 and His Record for the Precept-platform in the Vinaya-treasure Cloister 律藏院 at the Baoying Monastery 寶應寺 in Fuzhou 撫州
CHEN Jinhua
- Defense and Debate: Biography as Sectarian and Polemical Devices
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- 8.1. Genre as a Polemical Device: An Alternative Biography of Banārasīdāsa (1586– 1643)
Aleksandra RESTIFO
- 8.2. The Monk Mūlaphalguna and the Nuns: Biography as Criticism
Gregory SCHOPEN
- 8.3. Protection of the Dharma: Daoxuan and Three Types of Hufa in the Continued Biographies of Eminent Monks
Shanshan ZHAO
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