Buddhist Astrology and Astral Magic in the Tang Dynasty
Jeffrey Kotyk. . Leiden: Leiden University, 2017, 299 pp..
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A doctoral dissertation, defended 7 September 2017, open access from the Leiden repository and read in full here. Traces Indian, Iranian and Hellenistic astral material entering China through Buddhist and court channels. Cited at page level for the three models of the ecliptic (pp. 22-24), the Xiuyao jing and its two recensions (pp. 95-96), the shift to Iranian sources (pp. 120-24) and the Duli yusi jing (p. 124).
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- Eastward Transmission of Hellenistic Astral Material
- Read in full. For the three models of the ecliptic and the relation of the lunar stations to the nakshatras, for the Xiuyao jing and its two recensions, for the shift from Indian to Iranian sources at the turn of the ninth century, and for the Duli yusi jing.