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Esoteric Buddhism and the tantras in East Asia [electronic resource] / edited by Charles D. Orzech (general editor), Henrik H. Sørensen (associate editor), Richard K. Payne (associate editor).

Contributor(s): Series: Handbuch der Orientalistik. Vierte Abteilung, China ; ; 24. Bd.Publication details: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.Description: 1 online resource (xxi, 1200 p., [14] p. of plates) : ill. (some col.), mapISBN:
  • 9789004204010 (electronic bk.)
  • 9004204016 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Esoteric Buddhism and the tantras in East Asia.DDC classification:
  • 294.3/925 22
LOC classification:
  • BQ8912.9.E18 E86 2011eb
Online resources:
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).
Scope and content: 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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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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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).

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