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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| List of Illustrations | |
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| Ascending and Wandering: Introduction | |
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| Sacred Mountains in Ancient China | |
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| Dunhuang and the Dunhuang Caves | |
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| Dunhuang Literature | |
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| Dunhuang and Mount Wutai | |
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| Mountains in Early Chinese Poetry | |
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| About the Book | |
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| The Clear and the Cold: Mount Wutai | |
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| Early Literature on Mount Wutai | |
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| Early Legends about Mount Wutai | |
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| Chinese Emperors and Mount Wutai | |
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| Ma�jusri and the Chinese Buddhist Scriptures | |
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| The Ma�jusri-parinirvana sutra | |
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| Mount Wutai as a Manifestation of the Buddhist Doctrine | |
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| Early Chinese Poetry on Mount Wutai | |
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| The Mount Wutai Poetry of the Dunhuang Manuscripts | |
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| The Hall of the Great Sage: The Songs of Mount Wutai | |
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| The Hall of the Great Sage | |
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| I Ascend the Eastern Terrace | |
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| I Ascend the Northern Terrace | |
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| I Ascend the Central Terrace | |
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| I Ascend the Western Terrace | |
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| I Ascend the Southern Terrace | |
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| The Land of Vaidurya: Eulogy on Mount Wutai | |
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| Eulogy on Mount Wutai | |
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| Inconceivable Light: Eulogy on Mount Wutai | |
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| The Pure Land School | |
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| The Pure Land Monk Fazhao | |
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| Eulogy on Mount Wulai | |
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| The Gold-Colored World: Eulogy on the Holy Regions of Mount Wutai | |
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| Eulogy on the True Countenance of the Great Sage | |
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| Eulogy on Samantabhadra | |
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| The Eastern Terrace | |
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| The Northern Terrace | |
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| The Central Terrace | |
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| The Western Terrace | |
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| The Southern Terrace | |
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| The Holy Region of the Vajra Grotto | |
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| The Auspicious Stupa of King Asoka | |
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| Eulogy on the Physical Body of Rahula | |
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| A Vision of Sutra Recitation by the Vajra Grotto | |
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| Word and Image: The Mount Wutai Wall Painting at Dunhuang | |
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| Map or Painting? | |
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| Iconography and Imagery in Cave 61 | |
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| Mountain as Icon | |
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| Poetry as a Buddhist Matter: Conclusion | |
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| Transmission of the Vision | |
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| Literati Poets and Mount Wutai | |
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| For the Purpose of Salvation | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |