Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 1200 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), map |
Series |
Handbook of Oriental studies. Section four, China, 0169-9520 ; v. 24 |
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Handbuch der Orientalistik. Vierte Abteilung, China ; 24. Bd.
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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) |
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 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
SUBJECT |
Tantras. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80057009
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Tantras fast |
Subject |
Tantric Buddhism -- East Asia
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RELIGION -- Buddhism -- General.
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Tantric Buddhism
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East Asia
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Orzech, Charles D., 1952-
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Sorensen, Henrik Hjort
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Payne, Richard Karl
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LC no. |
2010037130 |
ISBN |
9789004204010 |
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9004204016 |
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1283119579 |
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9781283119573 |
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9786613119575 |
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6613119571 |
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