Esoteric Buddhism and Texts : Volume I, Manuscript Culture and Transborder Transmission (Paperback)

Part 1: Esoteric Manuscript Culture  1. Dunhuang was not isolated: examples such as ‘Master Yixing sets up earth-wheel lamps’ and others from Yunnan  2. Following medieval Chinese Buddhist precedents with ritual practices using exoteric Buddhist scriptures (kengy? ??) from Amanosan Kong?ji 天野山金剛寺 and Shinpukuji ?福寺 in medieval Japan  3. Reception and transformation of the Huiji Jin’gang shuo shentong daman tuoluoni fashu Lingyao men: the discovery and significance of medieval Japanese scripture manuscripts  4. A preliminary study on one folio of Tibetan tantric ritual text recently collected by the national library of China  5. Tangut Buddhism and the Bodhicittotp?dasam?d?navidhi  Part 2: Transborder Transmission  6. The Late Tang Esoteric Manual for Abhi?eka: an introduction, analysis, and translation of the Engy? Ny?dan  7. A (presumably Chinese) tantric scripture and its Japanese exegesis: the Yuqi Jing 瑜祇經 and the practices of the Yogin  8. On the integration of Chinese, Tibetan, exoteric and esoteric Buddhism in the Tangut Kingdom  9. K?kai’s transcultural rhetoric of prayer: on his writings inspired by the Chinese “prayer text” (yuanwen 願文)  10. K?kai 空海 (774?835) and Saich?’s 最澄 (766?822) theories on gotra 種姓 (caste)