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Exegesis Saves Exegesis Saves
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Guanding’s Introduction to the Great Calming and Contemplation Guanding’s Introduction to the Great Calming and Contemplation
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The Awakening of Faith in Aśvaghoṣa’s Repertoire The Awakening of Faith in Aśvaghoṣa’s Repertoire
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The Aśvaghoṣa-Nāgārjuna Connection The Aśvaghoṣa-Nāgārjuna Connection
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Aśvaghoṣa’s Dhyāna Expertise Aśvaghoṣa’s Dhyāna Expertise
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How to Write for Dimwitted Readers How to Write for Dimwitted Readers
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Indian Patriarchs in Xuanzang’s True Buddhism Indian Patriarchs in Xuanzang’s True Buddhism
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Conclusion: Locating India in China Conclusion: Locating India in China
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3 Salvation in Writing and the Annex of Indian Buddhism
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Published:February 2015
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Chapter 3 discusses how Sui-Tang Buddhist exegetes integrated Aśvaghoṣa, Nāgārjuna, and Āryadeva into broader efforts to redefine China as the epicenter of Buddhist enlightenment. This chapter illustrates how the paradigms of Buddhist sainthood advanced by Kumārajīva’s associates and in earlier lineage histories were amalgamated in a new idiom that focused especially on the importance of authoring doctrinal treatises. Here scriptural exegesis became the central defining function of the Indian patriarchs in China, particularly as juxtaposed with other means of conveying the Dharma across the Sino-Indian divide. In this way Chinese exegetes advanced a model of Buddhist sainthood through scholarship, but no longer in a benighted China marked by perpetually declining Dharma, which paled in comparison to the brilliance of ancient India. Rather, this model was promoted as part of the broader process of re-locating the means and media of Indian enlightenment within the new Buddhist heartland of latter-day China.
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