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[Talk] The last Pāla–Sena paṇḍita, Gautamaśrībhadra, at the ends of the Buddhist earth

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Sinclair Talk April 2021

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via UC Berkeley Buddhist Studies: Readers may be interested in this talk by Iain Sinclair on the Pāla-Sena empire, with a reference to the Karimun Inscription. Registration is required.

The thirteenth-century disintegration of the Pāla-Sena empire, the last state sponsor of Buddhism in its land of origin, left a fragmented milieu that is still being picked up and pieced together. On Karimun Besar island near Singapore is a short inscription that is unusually written in a Pāla-Sena script. For many decades after its discovery in the mid-nineteenth century it was misinterpreted. Today it can clearly be seen to give the name of a paṇḍita called Gautamaśrī. In 2018 it was found that this paṇḍita has the same name as that of a Bengali exile who was active in Nepal and Tibet in the middle of the thirteenth century. His story, which moves from the Himalayas to Southeast Asia in a period of global disruption, can now be told in detail for the first time.

Gautamaśrī, also known as Gautamaśrībhadra, was a young member of the cohort that fled the destruction of the last teaching monasteries on the Indian subcontinent. In Nepal he took up residence in Guitaḥ, an ancient monastic compound. A medieval avadāna relating to this monastery was most likely written by Gautamaśrī there. Gautamaśrī also conferred with his fellow exiles in Nepal, such as Vibhūticandra, and transmitted dozens of texts and practices to visiting Tibetans. They include works pertaining to the Kālacakra and Vajrāvalī/Kriyāsamuccaya tantric systems. Gautamaśrī visited Sa skya and his name reached as far as Beijing. However, Gautamaśrī was not like the many other thirteenth-century Indian Buddhists whose religion lived on only in the translations of the Tibetan canon. After avoiding disasters in the Himalayas and fundamentalization in mainland Southeast Asia, Gautamaśrī sailed to the ends of the Buddhist earth, reaching the islands of the Malay Archipelago. There, distinctive aspects of his expertise flourished: a revival of the Malay eight-armed bodhisattva Amoghapāśa, and a new cult of the ravenous deity Vajramahākāla. Gautamaśrī can also be linked to a paṇḍita who is said in the Sejarah Melayu to have co-founded a new dynasty in Sumatra. This lecture presents a range of previously unpublished findings on precolonial transnational networks, late Buddhism, Sanskrit literature and epigraphy, and the Indo-Malay kings.

Source: UC Berkeley Events Calendar | The last Pāla–Sena paṇḍita, Gautamaśrībhadra, at the ends of the Buddhist earth

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