Esoteric Buddhism and the Tantras in East Asia

Biographical note Readership Table of contents

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Book

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xxii, 1216 pp.

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BRILL

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English

Biographical note

Charles D. Orzech, Ph.D. (1986) in Divinity, University of Chicago, is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina Greensboro. He has published extensively on Esoteric Buddhism in China and is the author of Politics and Transcendent Wisdom (Penn State Press, 1998).
Henrik H. Sørensen, Ph.D (1988) University of Copenhagen, has written widely on Chan and Son, on Asian art, and on Esoteric Buddhism in China and Korea. He has directed the Seminar for Buddhist Studies (Copenhagen) and edited its publication series.
Richard K. Payne, Ph.D. (1985) in the History and Phenomenology of Religion at the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, is Dean of the Institute of Buddhist Studies in Berkeley. He also trained at Mt. Kōya and has written and edited several volumes including Tantric Buddhism in East Asia (Wisdom, 2005).

Readership

All those interested in East Asian history, the history of Buddhism and its spread throughout China, Korea, and Japan, and those interested in the tantras and their transformation in East and Central Asia. Also specialists in linguistics and philology, Buddhist ritual and practice.

Acknowledgements
List of illustrations

GENERAL INTRODUCTION
I.Buddhist Tantras, Esoteric Buddhism, Vajrayana Buddhism (art.1-2)
II.Canonical and Non-canonical Sources and Materials (art. 3-4)
III. Esoteric Buddhist Practices (art. 5-10)

ESOTERIC BUDDHISM IN CHINA
IV. Developments during the 3rd–7th Centuries:New Scriptures and New Practices (art. 11-17)
V. Convergences: Esoteric Buddhism, Daoism, and Popular Religion (art. 18-22)
VI.Esoteric Buddhism during the Tang (art. 23-28)
VII: Key Figures in Esoteric Buddhism during the Tang (art. 29-33)
VIII: Esoteric Buddhism in the Provinces and Neighboring Regions (art. 24-37)
IX: Esoteric Buddhism and the Buddhist Tantras:The Song, Liao, Xixia, Jin, and Yunnan (art. 38-47)
X: The Broader Impact of Esoteric Buddhism (art. 48-51)
XI: From Kublai’s Conquest to the Present: The Impact of Tibetan and Central Asian Vajrayana in China (art. 52-55)

ESOTERIC BUDDHISM IN KOREA (art. 56-58)

ESOTERIC BUDDHISM IN JAPAN
XII: Esoteric Buddhism in Japan during the Nara and Heian (art. 59-67)
XIII: Medieval (Kamakura, Muromachi and Azuka–Momoyama) (art. 68-79)
XIV: Early Modern, Modern and Contemporary (Edo, Meiji, and up to the Present) (art. 80-87)

Contributors
Abbreviations
Bibliography
Index

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