Esoteric Buddhism at Dunhuang : rites and teachings for this life and beyond /
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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English Tibetan |
| Published: |
Leiden :
Brill,
2010.
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| Series: | Brill's Tibetan studies library ;
v. 25. |
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
| 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. |
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| Item Description: | EBSCO eBook Academic Comprehensive Collection North America EBSCO eBook History Collection EBSCO eBook Religion Collection Worldwide |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxvi, 252 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9789004190146 9004190147 1282952382 9781282952386 |
| ISSN: | 1568-6183 ; |
