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Five-Colored Clouds of Mount Wutai: Poems from Dunhuang
By: Mary Anne Cartelli

Five-Colored Clouds of Mount Wutai: Poems from Dunhuang
 
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Author: Mary Anne Cartelli
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9789004184817
Publication Date: 2012


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In The Five-Colored Clouds of Mount Wutai: Poems from Dunhuang, Mary Anne Cartelli examines a set of poems from the Dunhuang manuscripts about Mount Wutai, the most sacred mountain in Chinese Buddhism. Dating from the Tang and Five Dynasties periods, they reflect the mountain�s transformation into the home of the bodhisattva Ma�jusri, and provide important literary evidence for the development of Buddhism in China. This interdisciplinary study analyzes the poems using Buddhist scriptures and pilgrimage records, as well as the contemporaneous wall-painting of Mount Wutai in Dunhuang cave 61. The poems demonstrate how the mountain was created as a sacred Buddhist space, as their motifs reflect the cosmology associated with the mountain by the Tang dynasty, and they vividly portray the experience of the pilgrim traveling through a divinely empowered landscape.

Five-Colored Clouds of Mount Wutai: Poems from Dunhuang, Mary Anne Cartelli, Brill, Hardcover, 2012, 224 Pages, $130.00

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