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Esoteric Buddhism at Dunhuang: Rites and Teachings for This Life and Beyond (Brill's Tibetan Studies Library, 25) by Matthew Kapstein, Sam Van Schaik (editors) is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Esoteric Buddhism at Dunhuang: Rites and Teachings for This Life and Beyond (Brill's Tibetan Studies Library, 25) about?
Esoteric Buddhism in late first millennium Tibet and China is nowhere in evidence so clearly as in materials from Dunhuang. In the original contributions presented here, Robert Mayer and Cathy Cantwell examine the consecrations of the wrathful divinity Vajrak laya, while Sam van Schaik considers approaches to the vows of tantric adepts. Philosophical interpretations of Mah yoga inform Kammie Takahashi s study of the Questions of Vajrasattva . The background for later Tibetan tantric mortuary rit
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- Author
- Matthew Kapstein, Sam Van Schaik (editors)
- Publisher
- Brill Academic Pub
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9789004190146
- Category
- philosophy
- Subjects
- History, Religion, Philosophy
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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