Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Abbreviations vii
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. “A Flock of Ghosts Bursting Forth and Scattering”: Healing Narratives in a Sixth-Century Chinese Buddhist Hagiography 23
6. 2. Teaching from the Sickbed: Ideas of Illness and Healing in the Vimalakīrti Sūtra and Their Reception in Medieval Chinese Literature 57
7. 3. Lighting Lamps to Prolong Life: Ritual Healing and the Bhaiṣajyaguru Cult in Fifth- and Sixth-Century China 91
8. 4. Buddhist Healing Practices at Dunhuang in the Medieval Period 118
9. 5. Empowering the Pregnancy Sash in Medieval Japan 160
10. 6. Ritualizing Moxibustion in the Early Medieval Tendai-Jimon Lineage 194
11. List of Contributors 243
12. Index 245