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Spells, Images, and Mandalas: Tracing the Evolution of Esoteric Buddhist Rituals (Sheng Yen Series in Chinese Buddhism)
Koichi Shinohara
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| #1688072 in eBooks | 2014-08-12 | 2014-08-12 | File type: PDF|||This book will transform the scholarly discourse concerning the relationship between dharani scriptures and esoteric Buddhism in the late Mahayana. In an area rife with confusing and competing theories, Shinohara has waded in and done the nitty-gritty textual
Koichi Shinohara traces the evolution of Esoteric Buddhist rituals from the simple recitation of spells in the fifth century to complex systems involving image worship, mandala initiation, and visualization practices in the ninth century. He presents an important new reading of a seventh-century Chinese text called the Collected Dharani Sutras, which shows how earlier rituals for specific deities were synthesized into a general Esoteric initiation ceremony and ho...
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