Esoteric Buddhism and the Tantras in East Asia

138 richard k. payne and charles d. orzech on ritual times, implements, supplies, and performance, set the basic pattern for all ...

. homa 139 of an expanded taxonomy of homa. Thus, in another of Vajrabodhi’s putative translations, the Jin’gang fenglouge yiqi ...

140 richard k. payne and charles d. orzech translation of the STTS.^20 Devaśāntika’s Yiqie rulai da bimiwang wei zeng yu zuishan ...

9. VISUALIZATION AND CONTEMPLATION Paul Copp Visualization and eidetic contemplation practices within esoteric Bud- dhism in Eas ...

142 paul copp in Mandarin Chinese as guan (Jpn. kan, Kor. gwan). This graph has a range of referents in Buddhist writings, inclu ...

. visualization and contemplation 143 presences, and the directing of the merit produced thereby, is a central part of Buddhist ...

144 paul copp traditions arrived. The use of props—such as the “painted image” from the Mahāvairocana sūtra visualization—were i ...

. visualization and contemplation 145 practice, priests most commonly simply recite the prescriptions of the ritual manuals rat ...

10. STŪPAS AND RELICS IN ESOTERIC BUDDHISM Charles D. Orzech and Henrik H. Sørensen Introduction The veneration of relics (śarīr ...

. stūpas and relics in esoteric buddhism 147 Asia these are often found enshrined in stūpas and depicted in images or inscribe ...

148 charles d. orzech and henrik h. sørensen East Asian, and especially Chinese, traditions concerning relics of the Buddha are ...

. stūpas and relics in esoteric buddhism 149 Esoteric Buddhism continues Buddhist traditions regarding stūpas and relics but a ...

150 charles d. orzech and henrik h. sørensen 695–700 CE, and the Raśmivimalaviśuddhaprabhā-dhāraṇī sūtra (Wu gou jing guang da ...

. stūpas and relics in esoteric buddhism 151 the Mahāmaṇivipulavimāna viśvasupratiṣthita guhya paramarahasya-̣ kalparāja dhā ...

152 charles d. orzech and henrik h. sørensen ācāryas and the source of the yoga teaching expounded by Vajrabodhi and Amoghavajra ...

ESOTERIC BUDDHISM IN CHINA Developments During the 3rd–7th Centuries: New Scriptures and New Practices ...

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11. ON ESOTERIC BUDDHISM IN CHINA: A WORKING DEFINITION Henrik H. Sørensen Introduction The aim of this essay is to formulate a ...

156 henrik h. sørensen a result, their views remain confined by the information available to them in the limited number of survi ...

. on esoteric buddhism in china 157 The Premises for an “Esoteric Buddhism” In the following discussion I trace the developmen ...