Where text meets flesh: burning the body as an apocryphal pr(27)
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Shambala, 1979).
(39) Wulin dazhaoqing lusi zhi (Gazetteer of the Great Zhaoqing
Vinaya Monastery in Wulin), comp. Zhuanyu, preface dated 1742
(reprinted as vol. 16 of Zhongguo fosi zhi [Taipei: Mingwen shuju,
1980]), p. 253.
(40) See Timothy Brook, Geographical Sources of Ming-Qing History
(Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, Center for Chinese Studies,
1988), pp. 49-466.
(41) XZJ.60.277a and W.60.422b-c.
(42) Han Changli wenji, jiaozhu (Annotated Complete Works of Han
Changli [Han Yu]), ed. Ma Qichang (Shanghai: Gudian wenxue
chubanshe, 1957), p. 615. See the discussion of this text and its
repercussions in Charles Hartmen. Han Yu and the T'ang Search for
Unify (Princeton, NJ.: Princeton University Press, 1996), pp. 94-86;
135; 139-40; 158; 251; 258; 304, n. 166; 325, n. 58. Compare the
translation by Homer H. Dubs, "Han Yu and the Buddha's Relic: An
Episode in Medieval Chinese Religion," Review of Religion 11 (1946):
11-12, which misleadingly overtranslates the characters shoo ding as
"set fire [to incense] on the tops of their heads [in becoming
monks]."
(43) For accounts relating to 819, see Tang Huiyao (Essentials of
the Tang), comp. Wang Pu [961 ] (Beijing: Zhonghua Shuju, 1955),
47/838; Au Tang shu (Old History of the Tang), comp. Liu Xu [945]
(Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 1975), 160/4198, 15/466; and Hartman, pp.
94-85. For 873, see the biography of Li Wei in Xin Tang shu (New
History of the Tang), comp. Ouyang Xiu and Song Qi [10601 (Beijing:
Zhonghua shuju, 1975), 181/5354.
(44) Wudai huiyao (Essentials of the Five Dynasties), comp. Wang Pu
(922-82) (Shanghai: Shanghai guji chubanshe, 1978), 12/202; Au Wudai
shi (Old History of the Five Dynasties), comp. Xue Juzheng (912-81),
(Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 1976), 115/1530.
(45) This sounds very similar to techniques used for burning of the
finger as witnessed in twentieth-century China. See Welch (n. 21
above), pp. 324-25. Compare this with the slightly different
technique used in Korea, as described by Buswell in The Zen Monastic
Experience (n. 21 above), p. 196.
(46) Zizhi tongjian jinzhu (A Comprehensive Mirror for the Aid of
Government; with Contemporary Annotation) (Taipei: Taiwan Shangwuyin
shuguan, 1966), pp. 292, 789.
(47) De Groot, Le Code du Mahayana (n. 21 above), p. 210.
(48) Prip-Moller (n. 21 above), p. 317; and J. J. M. de Groot,