What Happened After Mañjuśrī Migrated to China?

Foreword The Transmission of Wutai Cult from South Asia to China 1. A chemical ‘explosion’ triggered by an encounter between Indian and Chinese medical sciences: another look at the significances of the Sinhalese Monk Śākyamitra’s (567?– 668+ ) visit at Mount Wutai in 667 2. Fazang’s theory of zhenru 真如 (Skt. tathatā) and zhongxing 種姓 (Skt. gotra): with a focus on the influence of the Ratnagotravibhāga 3. Gathering medicines among the cypress: the relationship between healing and place in the earliest records of Mount Wutai The Spread of the Wutai Cult in China: Center and Margins 4. A study on a stone lantern from Dongzhang village in medieval China 5. Northern Wei Wutaishan: an outside view of centres and peripheries 6. How the Mount Wutai cult stimulated the development of Chinese Chan in southern China at Qingliang monasteries 7. The way of the Nine Palaces (jiugong dao 九宮道): a lay Buddhist movement The Wutai Cult in Japan 8. Moving monks and mountains: Chōgen and the cults of Gyōki, Mañjuśrī, and Wutai 9. Decentering Mañjuśrī: some aspects of Mañjuśrī’s cult in medieval Japan 10. Representations of the Wutai Mountains in classical Japanese literature The Wutai Cult in Tibet, Mongolia, Khotan and Korea 11. Tibeto- Mongol Buddhist architecture and iconography on Wutaishan, seventeenth to early twentieth centuries 12. A visit of Christian missionaries at Mount Wutai: Mongol Buddhism from a cross- cultural perspective 13. The Mañjuśrī cult in Khotan 14. Ennin’s (793– 864) Sillan connections on his journey to Mt. Wutai: a fresh look at Ennin’s travel record