Esoteric Buddhism and the Tantras in East Asia

358 martin lehnert Renwang jing (T. 246) were fundamental not only in terms of doc- trine; apart from a few commentaries, Amogha ...

. amoghavajra 359 ancestral spirits (T. 1313, 1315, 1318, 1319); and rites for curing illness (T. 1323, 1324); 3) Tracts and c ...

33. PRAJÑA Paul Copp Prajña^1 (Boruo , alt. Bolaruo ; 744–ca. 810) was perhaps the last great translator of Buddhist texts in th ...

. prajña 361 him the esoteric “yoga techniques” (yuqie fa ) of mandalas the “three mysteries” sanmi ), personal protection hus ...

362 paul copp time knew little Chinese and a Persian Nestorian who could not read Sanskrit, was something of a fiasco.”^7 A new ...

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34. DUNHUANG AND CENTRAL ASIA WITH AN APPENDIX ON DUNHUANG MANUSCRIPT RESOURCES Neil Schmid Situated on the Silk Route on the ...

366 neil schmid circulars for lay associations to monastic economic records, many of which contain colophons and marginalia prov ...

. dunhuang and central asia 367 Nearby Yulin caves 3 and 4, from the Xixia and Yuan periods respec- tively, also exhibit progr ...

368 neil schmid The placement of esoteric deities in the corridors and antechambers of the Dunhuang caves highlights their role ...

. dunhuang and central asia 369 together with a wide range of ritual texts and images.^11 The variation among genre markers in ...

370 neil schmid of Bewitchments was often copied together with nine other Buddhist sūtras, a practice done in the hope of assuri ...

. dunhuang and central asia 371 S.5534, S.5444, S.5451, and S.5669, the latter two in ink mixed with his blood.^20 Rather than ...

372 neil schmid Figure 1. Superlative mantra altar diagram, Or.8210/S.2498r Copyright, the British Library Board. Image provided ...

. dunhuang and central asia 373 complete with a setting for homa offerings as prescribed in Amogha- vajra’s translation of the ...

374 neil schmid found in Mogao caves 14, 432, and 462.^30 These mandalas appear to be associated with the Scripture of the Vajra ...

. dunhuang and central asia 375 Appendix: Dunhuang Manuscript Resources I. Esoteric Texts Catalogues of Esoteric Manuscripts a ...

376 neil schmid Great Britain Giles, Lionel. 1935a. “Dated Chinese Manuscripts in the Stein Collection,” Bulletin of the School ...

. dunhuang and central asia 377 Huang Zheng. 2005. Dunhuang su zidian , 1st ed. Shanghai: Shang- hai jiaoyu chubanshe. Ji Xian ...