Esoteric Buddhism and the Tantras in East Asia

18 charles d. orzech, richard k. payne, henrik h. sørensen What is meant by esoteric in each of these different usages is dif- f ...

2. SOURCES AND INSPIRATIONS: ESOTERIC BUDDHISM IN SOUTH ASIA Ronald M. Davidson The development of mature tantric Buddhism was t ...

20 ronald m. davidson art, and literature was developed during the early medieval period, 500–1200 C.E. However, we also see tha ...

. sources and inspirations 21 fortress identities, and over time they became de facto feudal hold- ings, in which the largest o ...

22 ronald m. davidson (sometimes stronger, sometimes less so) and gives insufficient weight to other factors; this formulation a ...

. sources and inspirations 23 been included in several tantric practice systems, with a wide variety of interpretations. Likewi ...

24 ronald m. davidson or bodhisattvas to magical battle in the opening narrative of the text (T. 901.18:785b–c). Similar themes ...

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3. TAISHŌ VOLUMES 1821 Rolf W. Giebel Among the many editions of the Chinese Buddhist canon, the most readily accessible and mo ...

28 rolf w. giebel Volume 18 Mahāvairocana sūtra and related texts (Dainichikyōrui ): nos. 848–864 (pp. 1a–206b; 17 texts). Vajr ...

. taishō volumes – 29 (1639–1702), and Shinjō (1719–1802), it is still not entirely con- sistent in that it mixes content-b ...

30 rolf w. giebel nāma has generally been omitted). The references are by no means exhaustive, and for reasons of space not all ...

. taishō volumes – 31 *Dhāraṇīsaṃgraha [901], the last of which is a voluminous collection of rituals for the worship of ...

32 rolf w. giebel Ekākṣaracakravartin/Ekāksaroṣ ṇ̣īsacakravartin [950, 951, 953–958], ̣ Five Buddha-Crowns [952], Jvālosṇ̣īs ...

. taishō volumes – 33 sion of the Sahasrāvartā-dhāraṇī, it is of quite different content]; ‡Samantabhadra-dhāraṇī [1037, ...

34 rolf w. giebel 1155, 1156], Gandhārarāja [1157], Ksitigarbha [1158, 1159], Sūryaprabha ̣ and Candraprabha [1160], Bhaisajyarā ...

. taishō volumes – 35 §13. Ritual texts for gods, etc. This section consists chiefly of texts relating to miscellaneous dei ...

36 rolf w. giebel dhāraṇī sūtra [1344, 1345], ‡Sarvabuddhāṅgavatī-dhāraṇī [1346, 1347], ‡Dvāda-śabuddhaka sūtra [1348, 1349], ...

4. TEXTUAL MATERIAL RELATING TO ESOTERIC BUDDHISM IN CHINA OUTSIDE THE TAISHŌ, VOLS. 1821 Henrik H. Sørensen Introduction While ...