Esoteric Buddhism at Dunhuang

Esoteric Buddhism at Dunhuang rites and teachings for this life and beyond / [electronic resource] : edited by Matthew T. Kapstein, Sam van Schaik. - Leiden : Brill, 2010. - 1 online resource (xxvi, 252 p.) : ill. - Brill's Tibetan studies library, v. 25 1568-6183 ; . - Brill's Tibetan studies library ; v. 25. .

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

A Dunhuang Phurpa consecration rite : IOL Tib J 331.III's consecrations section / The limits of transgression : the Samaya vows of Mahayoga / Ritual and philosophical speculation in the Rdo rje sems dpa'i zhus lan / The bad do thos grol, or 'the Tibetan book of the dead' : Tibetan conversion to Buddhism or Tibetanisation of Buddhism? / Between ne rak and a hard place : evil rebirth and the violation of vows in early rnying ma pa sources and their Dunhuang antecedents / Buddhist printed images and texts of the eighth-tenth centuries : typologies of replication and representation / Cathy Cantwell and Robert Mayer -- Sam van Schaik -- Kammie Morrison Takahashi -- Yoshiro Imaeda -- Matthew T. Kapstein -- Katherine R. Tsiang


Texts in English and Tibetan.

9789004190146 (electronic bk.) 9004190147 (electronic bk.)


Dunhuang manuscripts.
Dunhuang-Handschriften


Tantric Buddhism--History.--China--Tibet
Tantric Buddhism--Rituals.
Vajrayāna
Seelenwanderung
RELIGION / Buddhism / General


Electronic books.

BQ8912.9.C52 / T5545 2010eb

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