UID:
almahu_9949701086702882
Format:
1 online resource.
ISBN:
9789004190146
Series Statement:
Brill's Tibetan studies library, v. 25
Content:
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 Vajrakīlaya, while Sam van Schaik considers approaches to the vows of tantric adepts. Philosophical interpretations of Mahāyoga inform Kammie Takahashi's study of the 'Questions of Vajrasattva'. The background for later Tibetan tantric mortuary rites are examined in chapters by Yoshiro Imaeda and Matthew Kapstein. In the closing chapter, Katherine Tsiang investigates early printing in relation to esoteric dhāraṇīs, and their role as amulets accompanying the deceased. The collection is an important advance in our understanding of the historical development of Buddhist tantra.
Note:
Preliminary Material /
,
A Dunhuang Phurpa Consecration Rite: IOL Tib J 331.III's Consecrations Section /
,
The Limits of Transgression: The Samaya vows of Mahāyoga /
,
Ritual And Philosophical Speculation In The Rdo Rje Sems Dpa'I Zhus Lan /
,
The Bar Do Thos Grol, Or 'The Tibetan Book Of The Dead': Tibetan Conversion To Buddhism Or Tibetanisation Of Buddhism? /
,
Between Na Rak And A Hard Place: Evil Rebirth And The Violation Of Vows In Early Rnying Ma Pa Sources And Their Dunhuang Antecedents /
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Buddhist Printed Images And Texts Of The Eighth-Tenth Centuries: Typologies Of Replication And Representation /
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Index Of Dunhuang Manuscripts And Paintings /
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Texts in English and Tibetan.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Esoteric Buddhism at Dunhuang: Rites and Teachings for This Life and Beyond Leiden, Boston : BRILL, 2010, ISBN 9789004182035
Language:
English
