Esoteric Buddhism and the tantras in East Asia /
This volume is the result of an international collaboration of forty scholars and provides a comprehensive resource on Esoteric Buddhism and the Tantras in their Chinese, Korean, and Japanese contexts from the first few centuries of the common era right up to the present.--Publisher.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2011.
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| Series: | Handbuch der Orientalistik. China ;
24. Bd. |
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Buddhist tantras, esoteric Buddhism, Vajrayāna Buddhism
- Canonical and non-canonical sources and materials
- Esoteric Buddhist practices
- Developments during the 3rd-7th centuries new scriptures and new practices
- Convergences : esoteric Buddhism, Daoism, and popular religion
- Esoteric Buddhism during the Tang
- Key figures in esoteric Buddhism during the Tang
- Esoteric Buddhism in the provinces and neighboring regions
- Esoteric Buddhism and the Buddhist tantras : The Song, Liao, Xixia, Jin, and Yunnan
- The broader impact of esoteric Buddhism
- From Kublai's conquest to the present : the impact of Tibetan and Central Asian Vajrayāna in China
- Esoteric Buddhism in Korea
- Esoteric Buddhism in Japan during the Nara and Heian
- Medieval (Kamakura, Muromachi and Azuka-Momoyama)
- Early modern, modern and contemporary (Edo, Meiji, and up to the Present).
