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Esoteric Buddhism and the tantras in East Asia / edited by Charles D. Orzech (general editor), Henrik H. Sørensen (associate editor), Richard K. Payne (associate editor).
Van Pelt Library BQ8912.9.E18 E86 2011
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LIBRA BQ8912.9.E18 E86 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Handbuch der Orientalistik. China ; Vierte Abteilung, 24. Bd.
- Handbook of Oriental studies. Section four, China, 0169-9520 ; v. 24
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tantric Buddhism--East Asia.
- Tantric Buddhism.
- Tantras.
- East Asia.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 1200 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.
- Summary:
- 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.
- 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).
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Hazel M. Hussong Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9789004184916
- 9004184910
- OCLC:
- 660088170
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