Esoteric Buddhism and the Tantras in East Asia

178 paul copp first enchanting material such as oil or ash and then rubbing it onto the body—by the eighth century had themselve ...

. dhāraṇī scriptures 179 usual sense. The eight-syllable dhāraṇī featured in this text is to be enacted first of all through ...

180 paul copp The impact of dhāraṇī scriptures on Buddhist practical traditions was profound. Most famously, and as explored by ...

13. THE APOCRYPHA AND ESOTERIC BUDDHISM IN CHINA Henrik H. Sørensen Introduction The value and importance of apocryphal scriptur ...

182 henrik h. sørensen On the Characteristics of Esoteric Buddhist Apocrypha in China The detection and identification of apocry ...

. the apocrypha and esoteric buddhism in china 183 not pass the test of authenticity. Even so, a considerable number of these ...

184 henrik h. sørensen tice and at the same time contains large segments that could only have been written in the Chinese cultur ...

. the apocrypha and esoteric buddhism in china 185 mentioned above is interesting for a variety of reasons, as documented by M ...

186 henrik h. sørensen classified as an Esoteric Buddhist work since the late Tang, one cannot help noting that its only truly E ...

. the apocrypha and esoteric buddhism in china 187 Third, some hybrid works (see below) may occasionally be found to contain a ...

188 henrik h. sørensen structural inconsistencies. Moreover, they can hardly pass for sūtras in the usual sense of the word, eve ...

. the apocrypha and esoteric buddhism in china 189 bodhisattva Maming/Aśvaghosa, is a Chinese construct—basically, an ̣ invent ...

190 henrik h. sørensen in a ritual setting. The Chan lineage of transmission it presents has been adapted from the orthodox patr ...

. the apocrypha and esoteric buddhism in china 191 it a meditation practice consisting of visualizing the forty-two letters of ...

192 henrik h. sørensen be traced back to the late Western Han (206 BCE–24 CE). The rise to prominence of the Lingbao tradition o ...

. the apocrypha and esoteric buddhism in china 193 uscripts of the Guanshiyin Ruyilun tuoluoni huaxiang fa bing biexing wen, a ...

194 henrik h. sørensen those texts claiming Chinese authorship as well as scriptures said to be Chinese translations of Indian w ...

. the apocrypha and esoteric buddhism in china 195 to Amogavajra. There are many reasons why we should suspect that this is no ...

196 henrik h. sørensen need to embellish on a given text or to create an even better one with a more clear-cut and distinct mess ...

14. ESOTERIC BUDDHISM AND MAGIC IN CHINA Henrik H. Sørensen Buddhism and the Production of Ritual Magic Displays of magic have p ...