Esoteric Buddhism and the Tantras in East Asia

Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-90-04-18491-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 24, 1216 Seiten, Format (B × H): 168 mm x 249 mm, Gewicht: 2087 g

Reihe: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 4 China

In all likelihood, it was the form of Buddhism labeled “Esoteric Buddhism” that had the greatest geographical spread of any form of Buddhism. It left its imprint not only on its native India, but far beyond, on Southeast Asia, Central Asia, including Tibet and Mongolia, as well as the East Asian countries China, Korea and Japan. Not only has Esoteric Buddhism contributed substantially to the development of Buddhism in many cultures, but it also facilitated the transmission of religious art and material culture, science and technology. 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 right up to the present.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Orzech, Charles

Payne, Richard

Sørensen, Henrik

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Buddhismus Buddhismus: Kult, Riten, Zeremonien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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. Koya and has written and edited several volumes including Tantric Buddhism in East Asia (Wisdom, 2005).