Mediating the power of Buddhas : ritual in the Maǹjuʹsrimūlakalpa /
"Mediating the Power of Buddhas offers a fascinating anaylsis of the seventh-century ritual manual, the Manjusrimulakalpa. This medieval text is intended to reveal the path into a ritual universe where the power of a buddha abides. Author Glenn Wallis traces the strategies of the Manjusrimulaka...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
©2002.
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Series: | SUNY series in Buddhist studies.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Ch. 1 Introduction
- 1.1. Aims
- 1.2. Methods
- 1.3. Text: Manjusrimulakalpa
- 1.4. Ritual
- Ch. 2 Source of Power: The Assembly (sannipata)
- 2.1. Cosmology
- 2.2. Mmk 1: vision and cult
- 2.3. text as cult image
- 2.4. Revelation and transmission
- Ch. 3 Refraction of Power: The Cult Image (pata)
- 3.1. pata as image and animated object
- 3.2. Creation of the cult object (patavidhana)
- Ch. 4 Empowered Practitioner (sadhaka)
- 4.1. practitioner in the text
- 4.2. sadhaka
- 4. Epithets and space
- Ch. 5 Summary and Conclusion.