The Cult of Boudhanath Stupa/Jarung Khashar Suvraga in Mongolia: Texts, Images, and Architectural Replicas

Q2 Arts and Humanities

Cross-Currents-East Asian History and Culture Review Pub Date : 2019-12-14 DOI:10.1353/ach.2019.0015

Isabelle Charleux

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ABSTRACT:The cult of the Nepalese stupa of Boudhanath (Tib. Jarung khashor/Bya rung kha shor, Mo. Jarung khashar) was very popular in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Mongolia, especially in Buryatia. Testaments to its popularity include the translation into Mongolian of a famous Tibetan guidebook to Boudhanath, a corpus of Mongolian oral narratives, the many thangkas and amulets depicting Boudhanath stupa along with a Tibetan prayer, and the existence of architectural replicas in Mongolia, probably to create surrogate pilgrimages to Boudhanath. How was Nepalese architecture transmitted to Mongolia? This article focuses on these architectural replicas in an attempt to understand whether the differences between the "original" structure and the Mongol replicas are due to local techniques and materials, the impossibility of studying the original, or distortions induced by the mode of transmission. Has the original building been reinterpreted to the point of transforming its meaning, and were the architectural replicas accompanied by the cult practices associated with it?

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蒙古布达那塔/加隆·哈沙尔·苏夫拉加的崇拜:文本、图像和建筑复制品

摘要:尼泊尔佛塔布达那塔(藏文:布达那塔)的宗教崇拜。Jarung khashar /Bya rung khashor, Mo. Jarung khashar)在19世纪和20世纪早期的蒙古非常流行，特别是在布里亚特。其受欢迎程度的证明包括:一本著名的藏文博达那塔指南被翻译成蒙古文，一本蒙古口述文集，许多描绘博达那塔的唐卡和护身符，以及一段藏文祷文，蒙古还存在着建筑复制品，可能是为了创造对博达那塔的替代朝圣。尼泊尔建筑是如何传到蒙古的?本文关注这些建筑复制品，试图了解“原始”结构与蒙古复制品之间的差异是由于当地的技术和材料，原始研究的不可能性，还是由于传播方式造成的扭曲。原来的建筑是否被重新诠释到改变其意义的程度，建筑复制品是否伴随着与之相关的邪教活动?

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