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Esoteric Buddhism and the tantras in East Asia / edited by Charles D. Orzech (general editor), Henrik H. Sørensen (associate editor), Richard K. Payne (associate editor).

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Handbuch der Orientalistik. Vierte Abteilung, China ; ; 24. Bd.Publication details: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.Description: 1 online resource (xxi, 1200 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), mapContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9789004204010
  • 9004204016
  • 1283119579
  • 9781283119573
  • 9786613119575
  • 6613119571
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Esoteric Buddhism and the tantras in East Asia.DDC classification:
  • 294.3/925 22
LOC classification:
  • BQ8912.9.E18 E86 2011eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Buddhist tantras, esoteric Buddhism, Vajrayāna Buddhism -- Canonical and non-canonical sources and materials -- Esoteric Buddhist practices -- Developments during the 3rd-7th centuries new scriptures and new practices -- Convergences : esoteric Buddhism, Daoism, and popular religion -- Esoteric Buddhism during the Tang -- Key figures in esoteric Buddhism during the Tang -- Esoteric Buddhism in the provinces and neighboring regions -- Esoteric Buddhism and the Buddhist tantras : The Song, Liao, Xixia, Jin, and Yunnan -- The broader impact of esoteric Buddhism -- From Kublai's conquest to the present : the impact of Tibetan and Central Asian Vajrayāna in China -- Esoteric Buddhism in Korea -- Esoteric Buddhism in Japan during the Nara and Heian -- Medieval (Kamakura, Muromachi and Azuka-Momoyama) -- Early modern, modern and contemporary (Edo, Meiji, and up to the Present).
Scope and content: This volume is the result of an international collaboration of forty scholars and provides a comprehensive resource on Esoteric Buddhism and the Tantras in their Chinese, Korean, and Japanese contexts from the first few centuries of the common era right up to the present.--Publisher.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)368126

This volume is the result of an international collaboration of forty scholars and provides a comprehensive resource on Esoteric Buddhism and the Tantras in their Chinese, Korean, and Japanese contexts from the first few centuries of the common era right up to the present.--Publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Buddhist tantras, esoteric Buddhism, Vajrayāna Buddhism -- Canonical and non-canonical sources and materials -- Esoteric Buddhist practices -- Developments during the 3rd-7th centuries new scriptures and new practices -- Convergences : esoteric Buddhism, Daoism, and popular religion -- Esoteric Buddhism during the Tang -- Key figures in esoteric Buddhism during the Tang -- Esoteric Buddhism in the provinces and neighboring regions -- Esoteric Buddhism and the Buddhist tantras : The Song, Liao, Xixia, Jin, and Yunnan -- The broader impact of esoteric Buddhism -- From Kublai's conquest to the present : the impact of Tibetan and Central Asian Vajrayāna in China -- Esoteric Buddhism in Korea -- Esoteric Buddhism in Japan during the Nara and Heian -- Medieval (Kamakura, Muromachi and Azuka-Momoyama) -- Early modern, modern and contemporary (Edo, Meiji, and up to the Present).

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