Esoteric Buddhism and the Tantras in East Asia

638 henrik h. sørensen in order, including the thousand-pendant silken streamers. The multi- tude of immortal music is arranged ...

. esoteric buddhism under the chosn 639 and intone the dhāraṇī called “limitless majestic virtue, self-so brilliance and vic ...

640 henrik h. sørensen this neglect may be connected with the high status he has enjoyed, and to some extent still enjoys, as a ...

. esoteric buddhism under the chosn 641 Elsewhere in the Sŏnga kugam Hyujŏng goes into detail with the use of a certain class ...

642 henrik h. sørensen teaching said to have been given by Śākyamuni Buddha to his senior disciple Mahākaśyapa, an event that ha ...

. esoteric buddhism under the chosn 643 convincing attempts at establishing doctrinal common ground for Sŏn and Esoteric Budd ...

644 henrik h. sørensen ),^53 and so on. A central passage from the introduction enti- tled “Aja non ” (“A Discussion of the Lett ...

. esoteric buddhism under the chosn 645 Of immediate interest here is that the author invokes the authority of an important E ...

646 henrik h. sørensen Ch’ŏnt’ae school was the other important denomination of Korean Buddhism that had become absorbed into th ...

. esoteric buddhism under the chosn 647 The Kwanseŭm posal yŏnghŏm yakch’o (Abbreviated Text on the Divine Response of the Bo ...

648 henrik h. sørensen Figure 5. Printed illustration from the Kwanseŭm posal yŏnghŏm yakch’o. Sino-Korean. This small book is p ...

. esoteric buddhism under the chosn 649 Figure 6. Mantra-chart from the Yukcha myŏngwang tarani kyŏng. ...

650 henrik h. sørensen Although the worship of Cundī is known to have been fairly wide- spread during the Koryŏ, it became very ...

. esoteric buddhism under the chosn 651 Figure 7. “Cundī’s Nine Letter Heavenly Circle Chart.” Chosang kyŏng. ...

652 henrik h. sørensen few, none of these can be directly connected with Esoteric Buddhism. Among the few that can are those on ...

. esoteric buddhism under the chosn 653 Figure 8. 16th century painting of Cundī. Treasure of Taehŭng Temple. Photo by author ...

654 henrik h. sørensen A very rare eighteenth-century t’aenghwa of the thousand-armed Avalokiteśvara can still be found in the K ...

. esoteric buddhism under the chosn 655 Figure 9. Votive painting depicting the “Host of Spirits.” Sudŏk Temple, Chosŏn, 18th ...

656 henrik h. sørensen (and still are) invoked in Buddhist temples in conjunction with the recitation of the Prajñāpāramitā hṛd ...

. esoteric buddhism under the chosn 657 Sŏn tradition were also ritual adepts, and several of them also wrote on various aspe ...