Esoteric Buddhism and the Tantras in East Asia

318 charles d. orzech its brevity and exclusivity. Other lineages were concerned to fill in the gaps in transmission back to Śāk ...

. after amoghavajra 319 the Qinglong temple, the Xingshan temple, and others drew disciples from all over East Asia in the fol ...

320 charles d. orzech in the STTS cycle.^22 Indeed, the mixing of elements from both trans- missions appears to be a characteris ...

. after amoghavajra 321 Tendai scholars and clerics have been assiduous in tracing the lineages important to them throughout t ...

322 charles d. orzech Huiguo (746–806) There is a good deal more data on Huiguo than on Huilang, in part due to his many spiritu ...

. after amoghavajra 323 Hall (Dong ta yuan ) with an altar for abhis ekạ in the Qinglong monastery and appointed Huiguo its a ...

324 charles d. orzech minghao , T. 864B.^42 A brief Sanskrit text comprising a dhāraṇī to the thousand-armed Kuṇḍalī is also ...

. after amoghavajra 325 fact that the texts seem to have had little circulation in China, one cannot but harbor a suspicion th ...

326 charles d. orzech manual, apparently a revision of the first, usually called the “Qinglong monastery kalpa” 50 This manual g ...

. after amoghavajra 327 yiqietuoluoni sanzhong xidi ( T. 899).^55 All four texts proclaim a method of “three types of siddhi” ...

328 charles d. orzech (alt. Bolare , 744–ca. 810) arrived in 781 and received substan- tial patronage from Dezong, and worked cl ...

. after amoghavajra 329 by Enchin in 882 provides further biographical information.^66 Accord- ing to Zanning, he was from the ...

330 charles d. orzech (T. 1246) concerns Vaiśravaṇa; the second, Sheng huanxitian shi fa ( T. 1275) focuses on Gaṇeśa. I discu ...

. after amoghavajra 331 larize. Indeed, these deities and practices were drawn back into the currents of dhāraṇī and mantra p ...

332 charles d. orzech Many of these texts are variants of those ascribed to Amoghavajra. A sizable body of texts involves the us ...

. after amoghavajra 333 of wrathful protectors (vidyārājas or mingwang ), the receipt of twenty-eight “Vajra Precepts,” and so ...

334 charles d. orzech “Zhenyan” lineages, such as the Rites for Contemplation of and Offer- ings to Amitāyus Tathāgata (Wuliangs ...

. after amoghavajra 335 respected master of abhiṣeka and teacher of Enchin and Shūei, and the strong coloring of these texts ...

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Key Figures in Esoteric Buddhism during the Tang ...