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SUMMARY:Feasting with a Maṇḍala: Gaṇacakra-Related Texts from Dunhua
 ng and Their Significance
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DESCRIPTION:Guest lecture by Yi Allan Ding (Chicago)\n\nThe lecture will b
 e available live at Zoom. Please pre-register until 25 October 2022\, 12 p
 m. Zoom lecture times: 2 pm (Amsterdam\, Berlin\, Rom\, Stockholm\, Vienna
 )\; 8 pm (Peking)\; 8 am (New York\, Toronto\, Miami)\n\nAfter the collaps
 e of the Tibetan Empire in the mid-ninth century\, transgressive tantric e
 lements started to be absorbed into Tibetan Buddhism and rapidly spread in
  Tibetan-speaking areas. As a result\, the Dunhuang corpus features a uniq
 ue set of tenth-century gaṇacakra-related rituals texts that reveals the
  importance of the Sarvabuddhasamāyoga and the existence of Tibetan adapt
 ation. This talk explains the early forms of the Tibetan gaṇacakra in th
 ese ritual texts and the ritual logic of the gaṇacakra as a communal lit
 urgy. These Dunhuang texts also shed light on the gaṇacakra-related Nyin
 gma texts preserved in the Peking Tengyur.\n\n\nYi (Allan) Ding is Assista
 nt Professor at the Department of Religious Studies at DePaul University\,
  Chicago. He has published several articles that deal with Buddhist materi
 als from Dunhuang or Buddhism between Tibet and China\, including “‘Tr
 anslating’ Wutai Shan into Ri bo rtse lnga (‘Five-Peak Mountain’): T
 he Inception of a Sino-Tibetan Site in the Mongol-Yuan Era (1206–1368)\,
 ” Journal of Tibetology 18 (2018)\, “The Transformation of Poṣadha/Z
 hai in Early Medieval China (2nd–6th Centuries CE)\,” Buddhist Studies
  Review 36.1 (2019)\, and “By the Power of the Perfection of Wisdom: The
  ‘Sūtra-Rotation’ Liturgy of the Mahāprajñāpāramitā in Dunhuang\
 ,” Journal of the American Oriental Society 139.3 (2019). He currently w
 orks on a book manuscript that focuses on the zhai feast and relevant litu
 rgical scripts from the sixth to the tenth centuries.\n\n\nTo join the lec
 ture\, please register here https://ruhr-uni-bochum.zoom.us/meeting/regist
 er/u5MvdeqqrTooE9Tcp826iqbfD4qhfYCxijsG.
LOCATION:Online Event
URL:https://ceres.rub.de/en/events/feasting-with-a-mandala/
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