The Buddhist tantras : a guide /
"This work provides an introduction to the Buddhist tantras, the scriptures of the tantric or esoteric Buddhist traditions that developed in India in the seventh century and became the scriptural basis for several Buddhist traditions, most notably Tibetan Buddhism and the Japanese Shingon tradi...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2023]
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| Series: | Guides to sacred texts.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "This work provides an introduction to the Buddhist tantras, the scriptures of the tantric or esoteric Buddhist traditions that developed in India in the seventh century and became the scriptural basis for several Buddhist traditions, most notably Tibetan Buddhism and the Japanese Shingon traditions. The volume begins with an introduction to the tantras, focusing on the context in which they arose in India and the traditional accounts for their origin. It then moves on to survey the contents of the tantras, with particular focus on the ritual and meditative practices that they describe. It explores the history of their dissemination in Asia and beyond, and it introduces the ways that the tantras were categorized, canonized, translated, and explained by the traditions that value them, with particular attention paid to the transgressive content of the tantras and the ways that this was rationalized"--Publisher's description. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780197623855 0197623859 9780197623879 0197623875 9780197623862 0197623867 |