Esoteric Buddhism at Dunhuang : : rites and teachings for this life and beyond / / edited by Matthew T. Kapstein, Sam van Schaik.

• Superior document: Brill's Tibetan studies library, v. 25
• TeilnehmendeR: Kapstein, Matthew.; Van Schaik, Sam.
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's Tibetan studies library ; v. 25.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (280 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Esoteric Buddhism in late first millennium Tibet and China is nowhere in evidence so clearly as in materials from Dunhuang. In the original contributions presented here, Robert Mayer and Cathy Cantwell examine the consecrations of the wrathful divinity Vajrakīlaya, while Sam van Schaik considers approaches to the vows of tantric adepts. Philosophical interpretations of Mahāyoga inform Kammie Takahashi’s study of the ‘Questions of Vajrasattva’. The background for later Tibetan tantric mortuary rites are examined in chapters by Yoshiro Imaeda and Matthew Kapstein. In the closing chapter, Katherine Tsiang investigates early printing in relation to esoteric dhāraṇīs, and their role as amulets accompanying the deceased. The collection is an important advance in our understanding of the historical development of Buddhist tantra.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / M. Kapstein and S. Schaik -- A Dunhuang Phurpa Consecration Rite: IOL Tib J 331.III’s Consecrations Section / Cathy Cantwell and Robert Mayer -- The Limits of Transgression: The Samaya vows of Mahāyoga / Sam van Schaik -- Ritual And Philosophical Speculation In The Rdo Rje Sems Dpa’I Zhus Lan / Kammie Morrison Takahashi -- The Bar Do Thos Grol, Or ‘The Tibetan Book Of The Dead’: Tibetan Conversion To Buddhism Or Tibetanisation Of Buddhism? / Yoshiro Imaeda -- Between Na Rak And A Hard Place: Evil Rebirth And The Violation Of Vows In Early Rnying Ma Pa Sources And Their Dunhuang Antecedents / Matthew T. Kapstein -- Buddhist Printed Images And Texts Of The Eighth-Tenth Centuries: Typologies Of Replication And Representation / Katherine R. Tsiang -- Index Of Dunhuang Manuscripts And Paintings / M. Kapstein and S. Schaik.