Esoteric Buddhism at Dunhuang rites and teachings for this life and beyond - Kapstein, Matthew; Van Schaik, Sam. (Leiden : Brill, 2010)
A Dunhuang Phurpa consecration rite : IOL Tib J 331.III's consecrations section / Cathy Cantwell and Robert Mayer -- The limits of transgression : the Samaya vows of Mahayoga / Sam van Schaik -- Ritual and philosophical speculation in the Rdo rje sems dpa'i zhus lan / Kammie Morrison Takahashi -- The bad do thos grol, or 'the Tibetan book of the dead' : Tibetan conversion to Buddhism or Tibetanisation of Buddhism? / Yoshiro Imaeda -- Between ne rak and a hard place : evil rebirth and the violation of vows in early rnying ma pa sources and their Dunhuang antecedents / Matthew T. Kapstein -- Buddhist printed images and texts of the eighth-tenth centuries : typologies of replication and representation / Katherine R. Tsiang
Texts in English and Tibetan.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Description based on print version record.
Keywords: Tantric Buddhism -- China -- Tibet -- History; Tantric Buddhism -- Rituals; Dunhuang manuscripts; Dunhuang-Handschriften; Vajrayāna; Seelenwanderung; Electronic books; RELIGION / Buddhism / General