On the use of mudrās in Dunhuang's Buddhist Rituals during the 9th to 10th centuries
- This short essay is devoted to a survey and discussion of the Dunhang manuscripts which feature drawings of mudrās, gestures or hand-seals (Chin. shouyin 手印), i.e. ritualised hand gestures employed in Esoteric Buddhist Rituals. There are three known examples of manuscripts featuring such \(\it mudrās\): the long roll of P. 3905, the manual of P. 3835, and the set of line drawings of OA 1919,0101,0.83*. These three manuscripts form the basis of the present discourse, including an identification of the textual sources for these sets of \(\it mudrās\) and a discussion of the use of \(\it mudrās\) more generally in the Esoteric Buddhist context of Dunhuang during the 9th to 10th centuries.
| Author: | Henrik Hjort SørensenORCiDGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:294-78970 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.46586/rub.br.178.152 |
| ISSN: | 2628-2356 |
| Series (Serial Number): | BuddhistRoad Paper (2.4) |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2021/02/22 |
| Date of first Publication: | 2021/02/19 |
| Publishing Institution: | Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Universitätsbibliothek |
| Tag: | BuddhistRoad, Project ID: 725519 |
| Pagenumber: | 29 |
| Note: | BuddhistRoad, Project ID: 725519 |
| Relation (DC): | info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/725519 |
| Institutes/Facilities: | Centrum für Religionswissenschaftliche Studien (CERES) |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | Religion / Andere Religionen |
| OpenAIRE: | OpenAIRE |
| Licence (English): |  Creative Commons - CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 - Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International |
