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Esoteric Buddhism and the tantras in East Asia

Title: 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).
Publication: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.

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Description

xxi, 1200 p., [14] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), map; 25 cm.

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.

Series Statement

Handbook of Oriental studies. Section four, China, 0169-9520 ; v. 24

Uniform Title

Handbuch der Orientalistik. Vierte Abteilung, China ; 24. Bd.

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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).

Call Number

JFE 11-65

ISBN

9789004184916 (hardback : alk. paper)
9004184910 (hardback : alk. paper)

LCCN

2010037130

OCLC

660088170

Title

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).

Imprint

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.

Series

Handbook of Oriental studies. Section four, China, 0169-9520 ; v. 24

Handbuch der Orientalistik. Vierte Abteilung, China ; 24. Bd.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Orzech, Charles D., 1952-

Sorensen, Henrik Hjort.

Payne, Richard Karl.

Research Call Number

JFE 11-65

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