Chinese Esoteric Buddhism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Chinese Esoteric Buddhism write by Geoffrey C. Goble. This book was released on 2019-10-08. Chinese Esoteric Buddhism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Chinese Esoteric Buddhism is generally held to have been established as a distinct and institutionalized Buddhist school in eighth-century China by “the Three Great Masters of Kaiyuan”: Śubhākarasiṃha, Vajrabodhi, and Amoghavajra. Geoffrey C. Goble provides an innovative account of the tradition’s emergence that sheds new light on the structures and traditions that shaped its institutionalization. Goble focuses on Amoghavajra (704–774), contending that he was the central figure in Esoteric Buddhism’s rapid rise in Tang dynasty China, and the other two “patriarchs” are known primarily through Amoghavajra’s teachings and writings. He presents the scriptural, mythological, and practical aspects of Chinese Esoteric Buddhism in the eighth century and places them in the historical contexts within which Amoghavajra operated. By telling the story of Amoghavajra’s rise to prominence and of Esoteric Buddhism’s corresponding institutionalization in China, Goble makes the case that the evolution of this tradition was predicated on Indic scriptures and practical norms rather than being the product of conscious adaptation to a Chinese cultural environment. He demonstrates that Esoteric Buddhism was employed by Chinese rulers to defeat military and political rivals. Based on close readings of a broad range of textual sources previously untapped by English-language scholarship, this book overturns many assumptions about the origins of Chinese Esoteric Buddhism.
Esoteric Buddhism and the Tantras in East Asia
Esoteric Buddhism and the Tantras in East Asia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Esoteric Buddhism and the Tantras in East Asia write by Charles Orzech. This book was released on 2011. Esoteric Buddhism and the Tantras in East Asia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume, the result of an international collaboration of forty scholars, 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 to the present.
Chinese and Tibetan Esoteric Buddhism
Chinese and Tibetan Esoteric Buddhism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Chinese and Tibetan Esoteric Buddhism write by . This book was released on 2017-03-27. Chinese and Tibetan Esoteric Buddhism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Bringing together leading authorities in the fields of Chinese and Tibetan Studies alike, Chinese and Tibetan Esoteric Buddhism engages cutting-edge research on the fertile tradition of Esoteric Buddhism (also known as Tantric Buddhism). This state of the art volume unfolds the sweeping impact of esoteric Buddhism on Tibetan and Chinese cultures, and the movement's role in forging distinct political, ethnical, and religious identities across Asia at large. Deciphering the oftentimes bewildering richness of esoteric Buddhism, this broadly conceived work exposes the common ground it shares with other Buddhist schools, as well as its intersection with non-Buddhist faiths. As such, the book is a major contribution to the study of Asian religions and cultures. Contributors are: Yael Bentor, Ester Bianchi, Megan Bryson, Jacob P. Dalton, Hou Chong, Hou Haoran, Eran Laish, Li Ling, Lin Pei-ying, Lü Jianfu, Ma De, Dan Martin, Charles D. Orzech, Meir Shahar, Robert H. Sharf, Shen Weirong, Henrik H. Sørensen, and Yang Fuxue and Zhang Haijuan.
Indian Esoteric Buddhism
Indian Esoteric Buddhism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Indian Esoteric Buddhism write by Ronald M. Davidson. This book was released on 2004. Indian Esoteric Buddhism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Despite the rapid spread of Buddhism the historical origins of Buddhsit thought and practice remain obscure.This work describes the genesis of the Tantric movement and in some ways an example of the feudalization of Indian society. Drawing on primary documents from sanskrit, prakrit, tibetan, Bengali, and chinese author shows how changes in medieval Indian society, including economic and patronage crises, a decline in women`s participation and the formation of large monastic orders led to the rise of the esoteric tradition in India.
Esoteric Buddhism in Mediaeval Maritime Asia
Esoteric Buddhism in Mediaeval Maritime Asia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Esoteric Buddhism in Mediaeval Maritime Asia write by Andrea Acri. This book was released on 2016-09-05. Esoteric Buddhism in Mediaeval Maritime Asia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume advocates a trans-regional, and maritime-focused, approach to studying the genesis, development and circulation of Esoteric (or Tantric) Buddhism across Maritime Asia from the seventh to the thirteenth centuries ce. The book lays emphasis on the mobile networks of human agents (‘Masters’), textual sources (‘Texts’) and images (‘Icons’) through which Esoteric Buddhist traditions spread. Capitalising on recent research and making use of both disciplinary and area-focused perspectives, this book highlights the role played by Esoteric Buddhist maritime networks in shaping intra-Asian connectivity. In doing so, it reveals the limits of a historiography that is premised on land-based transmission of Buddhism from a South Asian ‘homeland’, and advances an alternative historical narrative that overturns the popular perception regarding Southeast Asia as a ‘periphery’ that passively received overseas influences. Thus, a strong point is made for the appreciation of the region as both a crossroads and rightful terminus of Buddhist cults, and for the re-evaluation of the creative and transformative force of Southeast Asian agents in the transmission of Esoteric Buddhism across mediaeval Asia.
