Esoteric Buddhism and the Tantras in East Asia

458 henrik h. sørensen of all Tathāgatas),^10 the (Great Compassion Dhāraṇī),^11 and the Foshuo Ruyilun lianhua xin rulai xiuxi ...

. esoteric buddhism under the liao 459 Interest in Sanskrit, including the mastery of Siddham, necessary for the proper use of ...

460 henrik h. sørensen yishi yanmi chao and the Xianmi yuantong chengfo xin yaoji men- tioned above.^23 Jueyuan, an important mo ...

. esoteric buddhism under the liao 461 Huayan school, but also that he was an adept in the use of mantras and dhāraṇīs. The t ...

462 henrik h. sørensen also feature exoteric ritual elements.^37 Likewise, elements of material culture, such as offerings, voti ...

. esoteric buddhism under the liao 463 Esoteric Buddhist spells were also engraved on funerary stūpas.^46 The stele inscriptio ...

464 henrik h. sørensen received a special person-to-person transmission on the lore of astrol- ogy from the National Preceptor ( ...

44. ESOTERIC BUDDHISM UNDER THE XIXIA 10381227 Ruth Dunnell Discussion of esoteric Buddhism under the Xia must begin with a c ...

466 ruth dunnell North China and the Liao/Jin empires. According to Kirill Solonin’s (2003) research on the Chinese sources of T ...

. esoteric buddhism under the xixia (–) 467 of the Sangha Office, śramaṇa Zhou Huihai , translated two texts from Tib ...

468 ruth dunnell already in the 1094 court-sponsored Liangzhou stele inscription (Dun- nell 1996). Certainly the most important ...

. esoteric buddhism under the xixia (–) 469 The Mahākāla cult may have been introduced to the Xia court and clerical c ...

470 ruth dunnell (ca. 1237) of the ritual deflowering of girls before marriage by a Xia state preceptor suggests that at least s ...

. esoteric buddhism under the xixia (–) 471 No doubt after the printing of the Hexi canon, many Tangut and Chinese tex ...

472 ruth dunnell extant works in the Khara Khoto collection. Imperial birthdays and other anniversaries became occasions for Bud ...

. esoteric buddhism under the xixia (–) 473 ritual texts, clearly served public purposes and focused on the apo- tropa ...

474 ruth dunnell Baoyuan also authored a popular Buddhist morality book, A Com- pendium of Wisdom and Virtue (Xian zhi ji ) or X ...

. esoteric buddhism under the xixia (–) 475 tices to the emperor and high-ranking courtiers and clerics. They were not ...

476 ruth dunnell Xuanmi Imperial Preceptor, whatever his nominal ethnic origin, was promoted from the position of state precepto ...

. esoteric buddhism under the xixia (–) 477 , published in Lijiang,Yunnan (Nie 2005). This material reflects loss or s ...