The wilderness monks of the Abhayagirivihara and the origins of Sino-Javanese esoteric Buddhism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2895396 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jeffrey Roger Sundberg (1. [email protected], corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 160 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 95-123 |
| Publication date | 2004-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Bijdragen tot de taal- land- en volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0006-2294 • E-ISSN: 2213-4379 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/22134379-90003736 |
| OpenAlex | W2063192114 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 3 |
The wilderness monks of the Abhayagirivihara and the origins of Sino-Javanese esoteric Buddhism Introduction to the problemAbandoned for a millennium, 1 the smashed Siddhamatrka 2 inscription commemorating the foundation of a Javanese branch of the famous Sinhalese monastery named Abhayagirivihara received mention in the earliest architectural exploration of the ruins of Javanese antiquity.First noticed in 1814, it was recovered bit by bit in the Dutch archaeological excavations of the late nineteenth and the early twentieth century.It surfaced briefly in an examination of the inscription of Kelurak by Bosch, and was then treated more fully by De Casparis in an incremental series of revelations of the text which he had managed to decipher. 3The published portions of the text, however, do not reflect the full extent of known fragments, and the inscription has not yet divulged all of its mysteries.This article is an effort to tease out one of them
Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Buddhism · Literature · Wilderness · Asian Studies and History · Classics · Cultural and Religious Practices in Indonesia · History · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
| Unique citing works | 6 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2019 (6) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |