Esoteric Buddhism and the Tantras in East Asia

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GENERAL INTRODUCTION Buddhist Tantras, Esoteric Buddhism, Vajrayna Buddhism ...

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1. INTRODUCTION: ESOTERIC BUDDHISM AND THE TANTRAS IN EAST ASIA: SOME METHODOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS Charles D. Orzech, Richard K ...

4 charles d. orzech, richard k. payne, henrik h. sørensen Hermeneutics and Teleology At some level all research and interpretati ...

. esoteric buddhism and the tantras in east asia 5 upon, and capitalization of it (or not) may have ideological implica- tions. ...

6 charles d. orzech, richard k. payne, henrik h. sørensen Esoteric Buddhism As indicated by positions two and three above, a key ...

. esoteric buddhism and the tantras in east asia 7 Land prior to their classic formulation. So too, it can be useful to dis- cu ...

8 charles d. orzech, richard k. payne, henrik h. sørensen paid to the more diffuse esoterization of Chinese, Korean and Japanese ...

. esoteric buddhism and the tantras in east asia 9 history to create anachronistically a “tantric tradition” with Hindu and Bud ...

10 charles d. orzech, richard k. payne, henrik h. sørensen rare in East Asia before the modern era.^18 This does not mean that w ...

. esoteric buddhism and the tantras in east asia 11 establishment that his new hermeneutic could make sense of the dhāraṇī tha ...

12 charles d. orzech, richard k. payne, henrik h. sørensen So too, to argue that all spells are merely Mahāyāna is analytically ...

. esoteric buddhism and the tantras in east asia 13 medieval Shintō. Thus we can talk about institutional esoteric Bud- dhism a ...

14 charles d. orzech, richard k. payne, henrik h. sørensen are regional phenomena, such as the Shikoku pilgrimage route, that ar ...

. esoteric buddhism and the tantras in east asia 15 Practice As with ideology and doctrine, practices vary between being preci ...

16 charles d. orzech, richard k. payne, henrik h. sørensen from action, doctrine and ideology from practice, fragments the tradi ...

. esoteric buddhism and the tantras in east asia 17 Pantheon The esoteric Buddhist pantheon may be initially referenced to the ...