TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kapstein,Matthew
AU  - Van Schaik,Sam
TI  - Esoteric Buddhism at Dunhuang: rites and teachings for this life and beyond 
T2  - Brill's Tibetan studies library,
SN  - 9789004190146
AV  - BQ8912.9.C52 T5545 2010eb
U1  - 294.3/438 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Leiden
PB  - Brill
KW  - Dunhuang manuscripts
KW  - fast
KW  - Dunhuang-Handschriften
KW  - gnd
KW  - Tantric Buddhism
KW  - China
KW  - Tibet Autonomous Region
KW  - History
KW  - Rituals
KW  - Bouddhisme tantrique
KW  - Chine
KW  - Région autonome du Tibet
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Rituel
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Buddhism
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Vajrayāna
KW  - Seelenwanderung
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - gtlm
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; 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
N2  - Esoteric Buddhism in late first millennium Tibet and China is nowhere in evidence so clearly as in materials from Dunhuang. In the original contributions presented here, Robert Mayer and Cathy Cantwell examine the consecrations of the wrathful divinity VajrakAlaya, while Sam van Schaik considers approaches to the vows of tantric adepts. Philosophical interpretations of MahAyoga inform Kammie Takahashia (TM)s study of the a ~Questions of Vajrasattvaa (TM). The background for later Tibetan tantric mortuary rites are examined in chapters by Yoshiro Imaeda and Matthew Kapstein. In the closing chap
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