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Entering the Dharmadhātu: A Study of the Gandavyūha Reliefs of Borobudur
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Entering the Dharmadhātu: A Study of the Gandavyūha Reliefs of Borobudur

by Jan Fontein

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Paperback · 258 pages Brill · 2025

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Entering the Dharmadhātu

The Gandavyūha, a sacred text of Mahāyāna Buddhism, is an allegorical tale of the pilgrimage of a youth named Sudhana, who visits fifty-three spiritual mentors to receive their instruction in the Conduct of the Bodhisattva. His miraculous journey on the path towards Enlightenment inspired the sculptors of Borobudur (9th century C.E.) to illustrate the tale in 460 bas-reliefs on the higher galleries of this great Javanese monument. During the 1920s N.J. Krom and F.D.K. Bosch identified many of the panels, but most of their findings, written in Dutch, remained unnoticed. Entering the Dharmadhātu compares the complete set of panels with three early Chinese translations of Central Asian and Indian Sanskrit manuscripts of the Gandavyūha. This first identification of the entire series in English concludes with a discussion of the new perspectives on the meaning, symbolism, and architecture of Borobudur that a reading of the Gandavyūha suggests.


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Publisher
Brill
Author
Jan Fontein
Format
Paperback
Published
Aug 7, 2025
ISBN-13
9789004733428
ISBN-10
9004733426
Pages
258
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