chapter 1. Early Scriptural Representations Texts and Contexts

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Figures ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Abbreviations xiii
6. Introduction .Problems and Perspectives 1
7. PART 1: Early Images The Bodhisattva of This Defiled World
8. chapter 1. Early Scriptural Representations Texts and Contexts 29
9. chapter 2 .Cultic Beginnings Reconsidered 50
10. PART 2: Multiple Images This World, Hell, and Pure Land
11. chapter 3. Indigenous and Accretionary Scriptures 81
12. chapter 4 .Art and Epigraphy 118
13. chapter 5 .Narrative Literature 167
14. Conclusion Reassessing Dizang, Lord of the Underworld 197
15. Appendix 1. The Scripture on the Ten Wheels Reevaluating the Traditional Dating 225
16. Appendix 2 .Antecedents of Dizang? Kšitigarbha in India and Central Asia 229
17. Appendix 3 .Translations of Scriptures 241
18. Works Cited 259
19. Index 295
20. About the Author 307