Esoteric Buddhism and the Tantras in East Asia

718 ian astley the religious and political situations in which they were written, and glean information about the material basis ...

63. THE MANDALA AS METROPOLIS Pamela D. Winfield^1 Introduction According to the Shōrai mokuroku (Catalogue of Imported Items) ...

720 pamela d. winfield from either scripture. Like many other Buddhist texts, the Dainichikyō does mention various buddha assemb ...

. the mandala as metropolis 721 plans of early Chinese palaces as well as the architectural elements of the typical sihe yuan ...

722 pamela d. winfield Figure 1. Womb World gong -shaped layout (Rambach 1987, 140). Mandala can be viewed according to this pla ...

. the mandala as metropolis 723 They are surrounded by bodhisattvas in four other assembly rooms: Kongōshu and other diamond a ...

724 pamela d. winfield three secrets of body, speech, and mind (according to Amoghavajra) or bodhicitta as the cause of awakenin ...

. the mandala as metropolis 725 the right, left, and bottom of the compound. The two topmost gates lead into the Hall of Śākya ...

726 pamela d. winfield Chinese courtyard dwellings were usually oriented to the south (not to the east as the Womb World is), bu ...

. the mandala as metropolis 727 Figure 4. Hall of Universal Knowledge, depicting stylized Butsumo triangle (ten Grotenhuis 199 ...

728 pamela d. winfield Figure 5. Yungang cave no. 12, Datong, Shanxi, ca. 465–494 (Liu 1989, frontispiece, 81). ...

. the mandala as metropolis 729 Figure 6. Yungang cave no. 12, Datong, Shanxi, ca. 465–494 (Liu 1989, frontispiece, 81). ...

730 pamela d. winfield Figure 7. Buddha’s great renunciation, Yungang cave no. 6, Datong, Shanxi, ca. 465–494 (Shanxisheng Wenwu ...

. the mandala as metropolis 731 Korea, further testifies to the ubiquity of this architectural element over a wide geographica ...

732 pamela d. winfield Figure 8. Tomb of the Wrestling Scene (Kakjŏch’ong), Ji’anxian, Jilin province, Koguryŏ, Korea, fourth–si ...

. the mandala as metropolis 733 Kongōchōkyō and the Ninnōkyō make his imperial associations explicit.^8 Accordingly, the manda ...

734 pamela d. winfield Figure 9. Diamond World diagram (ten Grotenhuis 1999, 36). framework recalls the Zhou dynasty’s well-fiel ...

. the mandala as metropolis 735 Figure 10. Wang cheng emperor’s city (Steinhardt 1990, 34). made his imperial progress.^11 Jus ...

736 pamela d. winfield Doctrinally speaking, the miniscule figure of Dainichi in the cen- trally located perfected body assembly ...

. the mandala as metropolis 737 Figure 11. Tang dynasty Chang’an (Steinhardt 1990, 97). The Two World Mandalas and East Asian ...