Esoteric Buddhism and the tantras in East Asia /

This volume is the result of an international collaboration of forty scholars and provides a comprehensive resource on Esoteric Buddhism and the Tantras in their Chinese, Korean, and Japanese contexts from the first few centuries of the common era right up to the present.--Publisher.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Orzech, Charles D., 1952-, Sorensen, Henrik Hjort, Payne, Richard Karl
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.
Colección:Handbuch der Orientalistik. China ; 24. Bd.
Temas:
Tantras.
Tantras
Tantric Buddhism > East Asia.
RELIGION > Buddhism > General.
Tantric Buddhism
East Asia
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Buddhist tantras, esoteric Buddhism, Vajrayāna Buddhism
  • Canonical and non-canonical sources and materials
  • Esoteric Buddhist practices
  • Developments during the 3rd-7th centuries new scriptures and new practices
  • Convergences : esoteric Buddhism, Daoism, and popular religion
  • Esoteric Buddhism during the Tang
  • Key figures in esoteric Buddhism during the Tang
  • Esoteric Buddhism in the provinces and neighboring regions
  • Esoteric Buddhism and the Buddhist tantras : The Song, Liao, Xixia, Jin, and Yunnan
  • The broader impact of esoteric Buddhism
  • From Kublai's conquest to the present : the impact of Tibetan and Central Asian Vajrayāna in China
  • Esoteric Buddhism in Korea
  • Esoteric Buddhism in Japan during the Nara and Heian
  • Medieval (Kamakura, Muromachi and Azuka-Momoyama)
  • Early modern, modern and contemporary (Edo, Meiji, and up to the Present).

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