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SUMMARY:A Glimpse into the Fire Offerings in the Tangut State: Homa Ritual
  in Text\, Image\, and Practice
DTSTART:20181009T080000Z
DTEND:20181009T100000Z
DTSTAMP:20260430T160127Z
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DESCRIPTION:Guest Lecture presented by Hou Haoran (Leipzig) as part of the
  ERC funded research project BuddhistRoad\n\nFrom the 12th to the 13th cen
 tury\, the fire offerings of Homa became prevalent in the Tangut state. Th
 is perception is based on the evidence as follows: Tangut tantric literatu
 re\, recovered from Kara Khoto and Shanzuigou\, contains a considerable am
 ount of manuals of Homa ritual\; historical sources and Buddhsit prayers r
 ead the accounts of the Homa offerings performed at the Tangut court\; vis
 uality of the Homa elements is observed in the Thangka collections from Kh
 ara Khoto and the mural paintings in the Dunhuang Caves. From the three as
 pects\, the lecture will provide an overview of the ritual offerings of Ho
 ma during the Tangut period. It will further examine an early Tangut block
 print\, i.e.\, the Saṃpuṭatantra\, which includes a section homavidhi 
 introducing various formulas of Homa ritual. The text derseves special men
 tion in its rarity for being kept in three languages: Sanskrit\, Tibetan\,
  and Tangut. Reflecting on a comparative study of the trilingual documents
 \, the lecture attempts to provide clues on how Tangut people interpreted 
 and reacted to Buddhist texts\, images\, and rituals.\n\n \n\n 
LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Cordoba" (3.06) 
URL:https://buddhistroad.ceres.rub.de/zh/events_zh/glimpse-fire-offerings-
 tangut-state-homa-ritual-te/
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