Esoteric Buddhism and Texts : Volume II, Material Culture, Rituals, Arts, Construction of Sacred Space and Narratives in East Asia (Paperback)

Part 1: Mantra/Dh?ra?? and Esoteric Rituals  1. Image, ritual and mantra: a study on Esoteric rituals of Dipper Mother M?r?c?  2. Chinese and Tibetan Sources on the Dh?ra?? in Roll Seven of the *??ra?gama-s?tra  3. Interpretation of the Unique Dh?ra??s: focusing on the Shi Moheyan lun 釋摩訶衍論  Part 2: Esoteric Arts  4. Chinese visual texts, Japanese spatial contexts: Mandala installation and the reading of empowered space in Japan  5. Dome of Heaven: the role of esoteric Buddhism in the Hall of Heavenly Kings at Mogao  6. Images of thousand-armed and Ttousand-eyed Avalokite?vara with Cint?ma?icakra and Amoghap??a as attendants: references to the chanting of the ‘Dabeixin Dh?ra??’ 大悲心陀羅尼  Part 3: Sacred Space and Narratives  7. Examining Amoghavajra’s flat-earth cosmology: religious vs. scientific worldviews in Buddhist astrology  8. Ximing monastery’s esoteric Buddhist traditions  9. Eison, Monkan, and the cult of founders in medieval Japan: on the construction of narrative and material selves in East Asian Buddhism