On meditation caves and cave-dwelling ascetics in Dunhuang, 9th to 13th centuries
- This essay discusses cave-dwelling ascetic monks in Dunhuang from the 9th to 13th centuries. First, I provide a brief and general presentation of cave-dwelling monks in Buddhism, followed by a more specific discussion of the phenomena in Chinese Buddhism. Then, I give a critical review of current Chinese Mainland scholarly positions on cave-dwelling monks and ‘meditation caves’ in Dunhuang, followed by an analysis of the primary sources, and lastly, a survey of archaeological data that has emerged in the past two decades regarding the residential caves in the Northern Section of the Mogao Caves.
| Author: | Henrik Hjort SørensenORCiDGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:294-73016 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.13154/rub.br.150.127 |
| ISSN: | 2628-2356 |
| Series (Serial Number): | BuddhistRoad Paper (5.1) |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2020/07/09 |
| Date of first Publication: | 2020/07/09 |
| Publishing Institution: | Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Universitätsbibliothek |
| Tag: | BuddhistRoad, Project ID: 725519 |
| First Page: | 1 |
| Last Page: | 38 |
| 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 |
