Esoteric Buddhism and the Tantras in East Asia

398 henrik h. sØrensen written by the Buddhist Chan monk Zujue (1087–1150)^12 during the Northern Song. According to the account ...

. esoteric buddhism in sichuan 399 , which served as the center for his cult in Mimeng , con- tinued to function after the Mon ...

400 henrik h. sØrensen associated with orthodox esoteric Buddhism such as the ritual use of mandalas, perhaps even those of the ...

37. ESOTERIC BUDDHIST ART UNDER THE TANG Henrik H. Sørensen Introduction The rise of the Tang dynasty heralded a new era for Eso ...

402 henrik h. sØrensen Esoteric Buddhist Art during the Seventh Century The Longmen Caves in the vicinity of the eastern capital ...

. esoteric buddhist art under the tang 403 Figure 1. Adorned Vairocana Buddha from Leigutai, Longmen. Tang, second half of 7th ...

404 henrik h. sØrensen Incidentally, images of Ekādaśamukha, the eleven-headed Avalo- kiteśvara, have survived in a fairly large ...

. esoteric buddhist art under the tang 405 later periods, and none of them hold any religious images or objects that date as f ...

406 henrik h. sØrensen which are said to include a finger bone from Śākyamuni, the historic Buddha.^10 After an earthquake, the ...

. esoteric buddhist art under the tang 407 Figure 2. Line-drawing of the Vajradhātu Mandala decorating the lid of the 3rd reli ...

408 henrik h. sØrensen example is different both iconographically and structurally. In fact, the lid of the relic casket bears c ...

. esoteric buddhist art under the tang 409 Other items from the underground treasury of Famen Temple with references to Esoter ...

410 henrik h. sØrensen in the local development of this form of Buddhism. The first phase began roughly in the middle of the sev ...

. esoteric buddhist art under the tang 411 The third phase began with the ending of the Tibetan occupation of Shazhou and last ...

412 henrik h. sØrensen strongly informed and influenced by those of India, Tibet, and the Uighur kingdom in Turfan. While the pi ...

. esoteric buddhist art under the tang 413 Figure 4. Vairocana with retinue. Qianfoyan, group no. 366. Late 7th to early 8th c ...

414 henrik h. sØrensen shows how quickly Esoteric Buddhist images (and, we must suppose, their cults) spread to the provinces. A ...

. esoteric buddhist art under the tang 415 Figure 5. Thousand-armed Avalokiteśvara. Fowan, group no. 9. Late 9th cent., Mt. Be ...

416 henrik h. sØrensen The Sichuanese sites reveal that it was chiefly the cults of the Bodhisat- tva Avalokiteśvara that domina ...

. esoteric buddhist art under the tang 417 and his immediate successors (see Goepper et al., 1988). Even so, for those pieces ...