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Tantric Buddhism: Northern India
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Tantric Buddhism is an adaption that arose in the seventh century A.D. through a fusion with folk practices in northern parts of India. It places great emphasis on sacraments, including initiation ceremonies, and the performance of chanting rituals. Images, Diagrams, and Songs.
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Although Indian and Tibetan versions of tantric Buddhism are increasingly recognized, the East Asian variations on this practice remain largely overlooked. The only book to present the entire breadth of tantric Buddhism in East Asia, this collection remedies that situation with 12 key essays drawn from rare sources. Organized into four sections—China and Korea, Japan, Deities and Practices, and Influences on Japanese Religion—the book brings together a "critical mass" of scholarship, with the potential to create a sea change in the understanding of this subject
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Approximately 130 years later, King Trisong Detsen (742-797) holds a debate contest between Bön priests and Buddhists, and decides to convert to Buddhism; in 779, he invites the great Indian saint Padmasambhava to bring Tantric Buddhism to Tibet. According to Tibetan Buddhist tradition, the arrival of Padmasambhava represents the First Transmission of the faith. Tantric Buddhism becomes important in Tibet, at this point.
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While the tantric Buddhism found in the Indian and Tibetan traditions is increasingly recognized, in East Asia tantric Buddhism remains largely unknown. This collection brings together twelve key essays on tantric Buddhism in East Asia, drawn from sources that are not commonly available. The collection is organized into four sections: China and Korea, Japan, Deities and Practices, and Influences on Japanese Religion.
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A third school of Buddhism developed in Northern India and Tibet--Vajrayana, or Tantric Buddhism. Tantra is best known in the West for its paintings of deities in sexual intercourse, and early visitors thought this referred only to sexual practices. Now it is clear that these images are metaphors for the union and transcendence of duality, separation, opposites.
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The tradition known as the Path with the Result, or Lamdré‚ is the most important tantric system of theory and meditation practice in the Sakya school of Tibetan Buddhism. This volume contains an unprecedented compilation of eleven vital works from different periods in the history of the Path with the Result in India and Tibet, including the Vajra Lines of the great Indian adept Virupa (ca. seventh-eighth centuries), the basic text of the tradition. The collection ... includes six writings by Jamyang Khyentsé Wangchuk (1524-68) and an instruction manual composed by the Fifth Dalai Lama (1617-62). None of the works in this book have ever been published before in any European language, and most of these writings traditionally have been considered secret. The present translation, volume 4 of the Library of Tibetan Classics, has been made with the personal approval and encouragement of His Holiness Sakya Trizin, head of the Sakya tradition.
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