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5.4 The Cosmic Bodhisattvas 105

5.4.1 Maitreya 105

5.4.2 Maiijusri 106

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   4. 3 A valokite5vara 1 07
      5.4.4 Other Bodhisattva Traditions 108
      5.5 The Cosmic Buddhas 109
      5.5.1 Multiple Bodies ifthe Buddha and the Buddha-Lands 110
   
   
   
   


6. 5.2 Siikyamuni According to the Lotus Sutra 111
   5.5.3 Ak?obhya 113


7. 5.4 Amitiibha (Amita) 113


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   5. 5 Vc!irocana 115
      5.5.6 Bhai$ajyaguru-The Healing Buddha 115
   
   
   
   

VAJRA YANA AND LATER INDIAN BUDDHISM

6.1 Syncretism and Survival

6.2 Buddhist Dialectics and the Monastic Universities

6.3 Buddhist Tantrism

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   3. 1 Action and Peiformance Tantras
      6.3.2 Yoga Tantras
      6.3.3 Unexcelled Yoga Tantras
      6.3.4 Lay Vc!jrayiina Practitioners: Siddhas and Yoginis
   
   
   
   


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   3. 5 Mainstream Monastic Vc!jrayiina
      6.4 The Disappearance of Indian Buddhism
      6.4.1 Buddhism in Nepal
      6.4.2 The Buddhist Revival
   
   
   
   

Buddhism Outside of India

BUDDHISM IN SRI LANKA AND SOUTHEAST ASIA

7.1 Orthodoxy and Syncretism, History and Structure

7.2 Buddhism in "Further India"

7.3 The Theravada Connection

7.4 The Colonial Period

7. 4.1 Sri Lanka
   7.4.2 Burma


8. 4.3 Thailand
   7.5 The Postcolonial Period


9. 5.1 Domesticated (Popular) Buddhism
   7.5.2 Buddhism in the Forest

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