The Ten Virtues of Loudly Invoking the Name of Amitābha: Stein Tibetan 724 and an Aspect of Chinese Nianfo Practice in Tibetan Dunhuang.

Stein Tibetan 724 was earlier identified as a list of virtues of the Buddha Amitābha. A new reading of the document and identification of its Chinese source allow its re-identification instead as a list of the virtues of invoking the Buddha Amitābha in a loud voice. The article offers a corrected tr...

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Published in:	Journal of the American Oriental Society Vol. 137; no. 3; pp. 473 - 483
Main Author:	Silk, Jonathan A.
Format:	Article
Published:	American Society for Premodern Asia (ASPA) Jul-Sep2017
Subjects:	Transcription (Linguistics) Tibetan manuscripts Bilingual education Bodhisattvas Dunhuang (China) China
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