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

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Kapstein, Matthew, Van Schaik, Sam
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Tibetan
Published: Leiden : Brill, 2010.
Series:Brill's Tibetan studies library ; v. 25.
Subjects:
Dunhuang manuscripts.
Dunhuang manuscripts
Dunhuang-Handschriften
Tantric Buddhism > China > Tibet Autonomous Region > History.
Tantric Buddhism > Rituals.
Bouddhisme tantrique > Chine > Région autonome du Tibet > Histoire.
Bouddhisme tantrique > Rituel.
RELIGION > Buddhism > General.
Tantric Buddhism
Tantric Buddhism > Rituals
Vajrayāna
Seelenwanderung
China > Tibet Autonomous Region
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • A Dunhuang Phurpa consecration rite : IOL Tib J 331. III's consecrations section / Cathy Cantwell and Robert Mayer
  • The limits of transgression : the Samaya vows of Mahayoga / Sam van Schaik
  • Ritual and philosophical speculation in the Rdo rje sems dpa'i zhus lan / Kammie Morrison Takahashi
  • The bad do thos grol, or 'the Tibetan book of the dead' : Tibetan conversion to Buddhism or Tibetanisation of Buddhism? / Yoshiro Imaeda
  • Between ne rak and a hard place : evil rebirth and the violation of vows in early rnying ma pa sources and their Dunhuang antecedents / Matthew T. Kapstein
  • Buddhist printed images and texts of the eighth-tenth centuries : typologies of replication and representation / Katherine R. Tsiang.

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