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In The Five-Colored Clouds of Mount Wutai: Poems from Dunhuang , Mary Anne Cartelli examines a set of poems from the Dunhuang manuscripts about Mount Wutai, the most sacred mountain in Chinese Buddhism. Dating from the Tang and Five Dynasties periods, they reflect the mountain’s transformation into the home of the bodhisattva Mañjuśrī, and provide important literary evidence for the development of Buddhism in China. This interdisciplinary study analyzes the poems using Buddhist scriptures and pilgrimage records, as well as the contemporaneous wall-painting of Mount Wutai in Dunhuang cave 61. The poems demonstrate how the mountain was created as a sacred Buddhist space, as their motifs reflect the cosmology associated with the mountain by the Tang dynasty, and they vividly portray the experience of the pilgrim traveling through a divinely empowered landscape.

Chinese poetry --- Buddhism --- Buddhism in literature. --- Buddha and Buddhism --- Lamaism --- Ris-med (Lamaism) --- Religions --- History and criticism. --- Mañjuśrī --- Wenshu --- Wenshu pu sa --- Wenshushili --- Wen shu shi li --- Wenshushili pu sa --- 文殊 --- 文殊菩萨 --- 文殊师利 --- 文殊師利 --- 文殊師利菩薩 --- 文殊师利菩萨 --- Dunhuang manuscripts. --- Tun-huang manuscripts --- Wutai Mountains (China) --- Dunhuang Caves (China) --- Ri-bo-rtse-lṅa (China Mountains) --- Wu-tʻai Mountains (China) --- Wu-tʻai shan (China : Mountains) --- Wutai Shan (China : Mountains) --- Wutaishan (China : Mountains) --- Antiquities. --- Mañjuśrī (Buddhist deity) --- Chinese literature --- Mañjūśrī