TY - BOOK AU - Orzech,Charles D. AU - Sorensen,Henrik Hjort AU - Payne,Richard Karl TI - Esoteric Buddhism and the tantras in East Asia T2 - Handbook of Oriental studies. Section four, China, SN - 9789004204010 AV - BQ8912.9.E18 E86 2011eb U1 - 294.3/925 22 PY - 2011/// CY - Leiden, Boston PB - Brill KW - Tantras KW - fast KW - Tantric Buddhism KW - East Asia KW - RELIGION KW - Buddhism KW - General KW - bisacsh N1 - 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) N2 - 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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=368126 ER -