Esoteric Buddhism and the tantras in East Asia
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
Handbuch der Orientalistik, 24. Bd, v. 24
1 online resource (xxi, 1200 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), map
9789004204010, 9781283119573, 9786613119575, 9004204016, 1283119579, 6613119571
731667667
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)