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
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).
"For its sheer scale and range, the work presents itself as a
unique one and offers itself as a source-book on the none too
easily definable or circumscribable form of esoteric and/or tantric
Buddhism for a wider public."
Benedict Kanakappally, OCD, Bibliographia Missionaria LXXV 2011
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