The ten virtues of loudly invoking the name of Amitabha: Stein Tibetan 724 and an aspect of Chinese nianfo practice in Tibetan Dunhuang

Author(s):
Silk, J.A. (0000-0002-9796-1021)
Published
2017
Publication type
Article / Letter to editor

Abstract

Stein Tibetan 724 was earlier identified as a list of virtues of the Buddha Amitabha. A new reading of the document and identification of its Chinese source allow its re-identification instead as a list of the virtues of invoking the Buddha Amitabha in a loud voice. The article offers a corrected transcription of the manuscript, presents and examines possible sources, and suggests the most plausible proximate original for the Tibetan translation, briefly exploring the practice of loud invocation as a Buddhist practice in medieval Dunhuang.

Date issued
2017-07-01
Language
English
Publisher
AMER ORIENTAL SOC
Is part of
Journal of the American Oriental Society (2017), Vol. 137, no. 3, p. 473-482
hdl
1887/3201095
doi
10.7817/jameroriesoci.137.3.0473