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Artistic and Scriptural Integration of Māyā into the Chinese Buddhist Tradition Artistic and Scriptural Integration of Māyā into the Chinese Buddhist Tradition
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A Sillan Prototype? Seondok’s Mother as an Early Seventh-Century Incarnation of Māyā A Sillan Prototype? Seondok’s Mother as an Early Seventh-Century Incarnation of Māyā
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Wu Zhao’s Role as Empress: Buddhist Motherhood Wu Zhao’s Role as Empress: Buddhist Motherhood
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Māyā and Wu Zhao as Ruler Māyā and Wu Zhao as Ruler
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Return of the White Elephant Return of the White Elephant
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Textual Amplification Textual Amplification
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Māyā, the Paranirvāṇa, and Wu Zhao Māyā, the Paranirvāṇa, and Wu Zhao
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Grotto of the Buddha’s Mother on Mount Wutai Grotto of the Buddha’s Mother on Mount Wutai
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Another Manifestation of Māyā in the Decades After Wu Zhao Another Manifestation of Māyā in the Decades After Wu Zhao
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Conclusion Conclusion
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Eleven Dharma Echoes of Mother Māyā in Wu Zhao
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Published:June 2015
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Abstract
This chapter examines the role played by Buddhism in the complex machinations of Wu Zhao's political legitimation, with particular emphasis on the nature and political utility of her carefully scripted connections with the Buddhist female divinity Māyā. Māyā, also known as Great Māyā or Pure Wonder, the mother of the Buddha, joined other mother goddesses and exemplary mortal mothers who played a crucial role in the construction of Wu Zhao's pantheon of political ancestors and in the development of her political persona. This chapter traces the development, under Wu Zhao, of the cult of Māyā and how Wu Zhao utilized idealized images of motherhood associated with Māyā to cast herself as a latter-day “Buddha mother”.
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