The Buddhist Religion: A Historical Introduction
124 CHAPTER SIX With the Tantras, however, the words themselves are said to have the power to coerce deities and other forces to ...
VAJRAYANA AND LATER INDIAN BUDDHISM 125 tiate's mind, and then from the mind to the entire world on which the ritual is to exert ...
126 CHAPTER SIX 5.4.4), aroused him from his concentration and conducted his mind-made body to the highest heaven. There they ga ...
VAJRAYANA AND LATER INDIAN BUDDHISM 127 to Awakening (see Section 2.5). From the mal).c;iala, in turn, come all beings in the co ...
128 CHAPTER SIX advocate the violation of sexual, dietary, and sanitary taboos. In particular, all the major Tantras of this cla ...
VAJRAYANAAND LATER INDIAN BUDDHISM 129 to the eastern side. Ak~obhya, in turn, never appears in his own form, but in- stead expr ...
130 CHAPTER SIX the yogini goddess. The guru was to be regarded as being identical to a Pri- mordial Buddha transcending even th ...
VAJRAYANA AND LATER INDIAN BUDDHISM 131 teacher's ability to identify the students' problems and understand their karmic source; ...
132 CHAPTER SIX an inch of his life. These humiliations form his initiation, putting his mind in the proper state to receive his ...
VAJRAYANAAND LATER INDIAN BUDDHISM 133 revolved around whether the earliest formulations of the Buddhist Path were to be regarde ...
134 CHAPTER SIX exercise in preparation for the time when one would be sufficiently skilled and mature to take on a live partner ...
VAJRAYANAAND LATER INDIAN BUDDHISM 135 the Gangetic Plain, but the religion was already losing ground in the south and the north ...
136 CHAPTER SIX such as in Andhra and Orissa until the sixteenth century, and in the Nepal Valley and eastern Bengal until the p ...
VAJRAYANAAND LATER INDIAN BUDDHISM 137 suspicion; the remnants of the Sangha may have been so lax in their conduct that they did ...
138 CHAPTER SIX Inscriptions reveal that Buddhist monasteries were present in the valley in the fifth century C.E.; in the seven ...
VAJRAYANA AND LATER INDIAN BUDDHISM 139 good terms with all the powers that be, in case they ever need to ask or nego- tiate wit ...
140 CHAPTER SIX In 1956, Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, the late leader of Maharashtra's out- caste untouchables, led 600,000 ofhis fol ...
7 Buddhism in Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia 7.1 ORTHODOXY AND SYNCRETISM, H.ISTORY AND STRUCTURE A s cultural areas, Sri Lanka an ...
142 CHAPTER SEVEN On one level, this quest has been expressed through reforms sponsored by royal patrons, who have sent missions ...
BUDDHISM IN SRI LANKA AND SOUTHEAST ASIA 143 Once Brahmanism and Buddhism were established in the courts and began spreading to ...
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