Dalton Conjuring the Buddha

Ritual Manuals in Early Tantric Buddhism
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-0-231-55618-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch

Jacob P. Dalton offers a history of early tantric Buddhist ritual through the lens of the Tibetan manuscripts discovered near Dunhuang on the ancient Silk Road. He argues that the spread of ritual manuals offered Buddhists an extracanonical literary form through which to engage with their tradition in new and locally specific ways.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dalton, Jacob P.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Buddhismus Tibetischer Buddhismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Buddhismus Buddhismus: Heilige Texte & Traditionsliteratur
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Buddhismus Buddhismus: Leben & Praxis, Soziale Aspekte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Introduction
1. Ritual Manuals and the Spread of the Local
2. From Dharani to Tantra: The Sarvadurgatiparisodhana
Appendix: A Sarvadurgatiparisodhana Initiation Manual
3. Evoking Possession: The Sarvatathagata-tattvasamgraha
Appendix: Tattvasamgraha-sadhanopayika
4. Secretory Secrets: Sexual Yoga in Early Mahayoga
Appendix: The Generation of Fortune Sadhana
5. Circles of Blazing Breaths: A Manual for Mantra Recitation
Appendix: Samadhi Sadhana with Commentary
Conclusions
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jacob P. Dalton is Khyentse Foundation Distinguished Professor in Tibetan Buddhism at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Taming of the Demons: Violence and Liberation in Tibetan Buddhism (2011) and The Gathering of Intentions: A History of a Tibetan Tantra (Columbia, 2016), as well as coauthor of Tibetan Tantric Manuscripts from Dunhuang: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Stein Collection at the British Library (2006).