Conjuring the Buddha: Ritual Manuals in Early Tantric Buddhism - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Columbia University PressISBN-13:9780231205832ISBN-10:023120583XUPC:9780231205832Book Category:ReligionBook Subcategory:BuddhismBook Topic:TibetanSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 1.20 inchesWeight:1.1001Product ID:SC5DKEKQXR
Conjuring the Buddha: Ritual Manuals in Early Tantric Buddhism
Ritual manuals are among the most common and most personal forms of Buddhist literature. Since at least the late fifth century, individual practitioners--including monks, nuns, teachers, disciples, and laypeople--have kept texts describing how to perform the daily rites. These manuals represent an intimate counterpart to the canonical sutras and the tantras, speaking to the lived experience of...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Columbia University PressISBN-13:9780231205832ISBN-10:023120583XUPC:9780231205832Book Category:ReligionBook Subcategory:BuddhismBook Topic:TibetanSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 1.20 inchesWeight:1.1001Product ID:SC5DKEKQXR
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...
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