The translation and research of a sanskrit manuscript:Vajravali

My research is focused on the proofreading and translation of the sanskrit manuscripture Vajr?v?li,a ritual compendium compiled by the famous abbot of Vikrama?ila monastery, Abhay?karagupta. Vajr?v?li has mainly introduced the process of drawing a mandala.The so-called “mandala” is a pantheon of tantric buddhism,which can be classified into the “drawn mandala”(lekhyamandala) and “envisaged mandala”(bhavyamandala). The objective of my project is to make a critical edition of the sanskrit version of Sutranavidhi and Rajahpatanavidhi with the help of three sanskrit manuscripts and then translate them into Chinese. The outcome of my research will be a critical sanskrit version with its Tibetan version and my Chinese translation.

Faculty Supervisor:

Jinhua Chen

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Partner:

East China Normal University

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

The University of British Columbia

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