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Table of Contents Preface Foreword 1.Sacred Network Reflected on Stone 1.1.Claudia WENZEL Imprinting the Living Rock with Buddhist On the Creation of a Regional Sacred Geography in Shandong in the Second Half of the Sixth Century 1.2.Mingli SUN A Study on the Images of Treasure Birds as Shown in the Transformation Tableaux of Western Pure Land Sutras in Sichuan from the Tang and Five Dynasties 1.3.Guodong FENG The 'Daan Ta Beiming, [Daan Pagoda Stele]: Religious and Sociopolitical Networks Woven around the Construction of a Song-dynasty Buddhist Pagoda 2.Paper and Buddhist Manuscript and Epigraphical Culture 2.1.WEI Zheng The Question of the Dating of Bingling Temple,s Cave 169, Niche 6 and its Connection to the Time of the Composition and Dissemination of Several Buddhist Scriptures 2.2.George A. KEYWRTH On the Influence of the Longkan Shoujian as a Glossary on Dharani Carved in Stone (and on Metal Sheets) in the North Pagoda at Chaoyang and in Manuscripts from 12th Century Japan 2.3.T. H. BARRETT Against Once More a Visit to Zen and History 3.Sacred and Secular Seen through Stone 3.1.TONG Ling A Weeping King’: Glimpses into the Religious and Political Life of a Northern Liang Ruler, as Shed by his Stone-Buddha Project 3.2.Stephanie BALKWILL A Virtuoso Nun in the Situating the Earliest-Known Dated Biography of a Buddhist Nun in East Asia Author Biographies