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Esoteric Buddhism at Dunhuang : rites and teachings for this life and beyond /

Esoteric Buddhism in late first millennium Tibet and China is nowhere in evidence so clearly as in materials from Dunhuang. In the original contributions presented here, Robert Mayer and Cathy Cantwell examine the consecrations of the wrathful divinity VajrakAlaya, while Sam van Schaik considers app...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Autres auteurs: Kapstein, Matthew, Van Schaik, Sam
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Tibetan
Publié: Leiden : Brill, 2010.
Collection:Brill's Tibetan studies library ; v. 25.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé:Esoteric Buddhism in late first millennium Tibet and China is nowhere in evidence so clearly as in materials from Dunhuang. In the original contributions presented here, Robert Mayer and Cathy Cantwell examine the consecrations of the wrathful divinity VajrakAlaya, while Sam van Schaik considers approaches to the vows of tantric adepts. Philosophical interpretations of MahAyoga inform Kammie Takahashia (TM)s study of the a ~Questions of Vajrasattvaa (TM). The background for later Tibetan tantric mortuary rites are examined in chapters by Yoshiro Imaeda and Matthew Kapstein. In the closing chap.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (xxvi, 252 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN:9789004190146
9004190147
1282952382
9781282952386
ISSN:1568-6183 ;