Esoteric Buddhism and the Tantras in East Asia

298 henrik h. sØrensen Chan Shortly after Śubhākarasiṃha’s arrival in Chang’an, the Western Capi- tal, in 716 C.E. Tang, a numb ...

. the presence of esoteric buddhist elements 299 toward the end of his life, as it has been relatively well documented.^34 In ...

300 henrik h. sØrensen Finally, a Dunhuang manuscript entitled Foshuo Lengqie jing chan- men xitan zhang (Gate of Chan with Sidd ...

. the presence of esoteric buddhist elements 301 (Scripture of the Vajra Pinnacle, Vajraśekhara, All Tathāgatas’ Deep and Wond ...

302 henrik h. sØrensen half of the ninth century. A stele inscription dedicated to the monk Hyesŏ (774–850),^52 an important Sŏn ...

. the presence of esoteric buddhist elements 303 And though they never central to the Faxiang school, Esoteric Bud- dhist prac ...

26. THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ESOTERIC BUDDHIST CANON Richard D. McBride II Until recently, most scholarly views of the development ...

. the development of the esoteric buddhist canon 305 (Chou 1945, 241–48; Kiyota 1978, 6 –7, 13–18; Matsunaga 1980, 83–114). St ...

306 richard d. mcbride ii (fl. 794), who even worked closely with Amoghavajra on several trans- lation projects, and Heng’an (fl ...

27. THE IMPACT OF TRANSLATED ESOTERIC BUDDHIST SCRIPTURES ON CHINESE BUDDHISM Richard D. McBride II The influence of esoteric Bu ...

308 richard d. mcbride ii popular religions. Before I briefly assess the impact of this new strand of Mahāyāna literature and pr ...

. the impact of translated esoteric buddhist scriptures 309 instance, the Samukhanāma-dhāraṇī (Huming famen shenzhou jing ), ...

310 richard d. mcbride ii these two reward bodies in more detail. The self-saṃbhogakāya, in the inner mind (neishen ), is what ...

. the impact of translated esoteric buddhist scriptures 311 the eight-leaved [lotus flower] (of the Dari jing ; another name f ...

312 richard d. mcbride ii translations of ritual texts, such as Amoghavajra’s revised translation of the Sūtra on Humane Kings, ...

. the impact of translated esoteric buddhist scriptures 313 Rapprochement with Daoism and Popular Religion A few scholars have ...

314 richard d. mcbride ii substrate instead of a shamanic substrate in Chinese religion, drama, and so forth (2002, 278–281). Ho ...

28. AFTER AMOGHAVAJRA: ESOTERIC BUDDHISM IN THE LATE TANG Charles D. Orzech Introduction Late Tang esoteric Buddhism, relative t ...

316 charles d. orzech “pre-interpretative decisions” have resulted in a relatively paucity of in-depth studies of ninth-century ...

. after amoghavajra 317 Shortly after his death, Amoghavajra’s lay disciples Yan Ying 10 and Zhao Qian 11 recounted the transm ...