HSG-Vortrag von Nelson Landry: “Liu Sahe’s Life Between Two Worlds: The Legacy of a Medieval Chinese Buddhist Miracle-worker”
Ink and colour on silk. The image is from the field collection of Sir Marc Aurel Stein.Foto: Trustees of the British Museum
Die Abteilung für Sprache und Kultur Chinas und die Hamburger Sinologische Gesellschaft laden zu einem Vortrag von Herrn Dr. Nelson Landry (Hamburg) am Dienstag, 03.06.2025 um 18 Uhr in Raum 123 am AAI ein.
Liu Sahe’s Life Between Two Worlds: The Legacy of a Medieval Chinese Buddhist Miracle-worker
Liu Sahe 劉薩荷 was a northerner, possibly of Southern Xiongnu descent, who settled in Cizhou (present-day Shanxi) during the Jin dynasty (260–420). He initially made a living as a hunter, though after a near-death experience and a visit to the Buddhist hells he renounced his livelihood to ordain as a monk, taking on the monastic name Huida 慧達. During his near-death experience he was instructed to seek out Aśokan (c. 268–232 BCE) ruins in China. According to varying accounts of his life, he would have discovered various sacred sites and religious objects during his travels—sites that became hallowed places marking the borders of Buddhist China. When he died in the deserts of present-day Wuwei in Gansu, a cult began to form around this mysterious figure, spreading from his home county all the way to the borderlands in Dunhuang.
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