Esoteric Buddhism and the Tantras in East Asia

198 henrik h. sørensen the fundamental belief in magic: what makes it work and why? Such questions may be referred to as “the lo ...

. esoteric buddhism and magic in china 199 evident that the same spell or mantra appears in different versions,^5 sometimes in ...

200 henrik h. sørensen While the idea that a given magical process would only be successful if followed to the word may have exi ...

. esoteric buddhism and magic in china 201 the driving force behind the interest in the mastery of siddhis in Eso- teric Buddh ...

202 henrik h. sørensen dhāraṇī-sūtra called the Fo shuo hu zhu tongzi tuoluoni jing (Buddha Speaks the Scripture on the Dhāran ...

. esoteric buddhism and magic in china 203 hunting.” This arcane form of treasure hunting can be subdivided into two kinds. On ...

204 henrik h. sørensen response” (ganying in the Esoteric Buddhist context means that the magic/rite is working, i.e., that the ...

. esoteric buddhism and magic in china 205 Buddhism—whether we talk about its earlier manifestations or the later tantric phas ...

206 henrik h. sørensen includes mainly those rites believed to cause harm or those which involve some form of control over other ...

. esoteric buddhism and magic in china 207 Although the Esoteric Buddhist literature in China abounds in pre- scriptions for t ...

15. ESOTERIC BUDDHISM AND ITS RELATION TO HEALING AND DEMONOLOGY Richard D. McBride II In medieval China, people generally under ...

. esoteric buddhism and its relation to healing 209 Eventually, in ritual texts that were introduced during the High and Middl ...

210 richard d. mcbride ii Strickmann 1996, 73–87). All of these texts contain detailed proce- dures for using dhāraṇī to both p ...

. esoteric buddhism and its relation to healing 211 over a host of locations from doorways and villages to entire king- doms a ...

212 richard d. mcbride ii Among all these, the personal names of a few species of demons stand out from the foregoing laundry li ...

. esoteric buddhism and its relation to healing 213 spell that “the earlier and later buddhas, more than thirty-thousand peopl ...

214 richard d. mcbride ii god Maheśvara and summons spirits from the heavenly realm to carry out his will (Strickmann 2002, 204– ...

16. POPULAR ESOTERIC DEITIES AND THE SPREAD OF THEIR CULTS Richard D. McBride II Differentiating esoteric Buddhist deities from ...

216 richard d. mcbride ii 1948; Yü 2001). All are closely associated to the cultic practices of making images, sūtra-chanting, a ...

. popular esoteric deities 217 1996), and translations of dhāraṇī sūtras associated with Amoghapāśa (Meisezahl 1962), and Ekā ...