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

Esoteric Buddhism at Dunhuang : rites and teachings for this life and beyond / edited by Matthew T. Kapstein, Sam van Schaik.

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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Other Authors: Kapstein, Matthew, Van Schaik, Sam
Format: eBook
Language:English
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.
RELIGION > Buddhism > General.
Tantric Buddhism
Tantric Buddhism > Rituals
Vajrayāna
Seelenwanderung
China > Tibet Autonomous Region
History
Online Access:Click for online access
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xxvi, 252 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN:9789004190146
9004190147
1282952382
9781282952386
ISSN:1568-6183 ;
Language:Texts in English and Tibetan.
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.

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