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Collectively, the papers of this volume reveal the cultural dynamism of Tibet in the period between 900 and 1400CE, when the fundamental contours of Tibetan Buddhism were still fluid and highly contested. The papers address a spectrum of issues in Tibetan religion and literature, ranging in time and space from the far eastern oasis of Dunhuang in the tenth century through 'high classical' developments in Central Tibet in the early fifteenth century. It is divided into four parts, addressing respectively literary and religious issues in tenth-century Dunhuang, the textual history of the Old Tantric Canon (Rnying ma'i rgyud 'bum), the development of Tibetan religious literature in the new translation period, and the history and transmission of several influential systems of esoteric Buddhism.

Buddhism --- Buddha and Buddhism --- Lamaism --- Ris-med (Lamaism) --- Religions --- History --- Buddhism.

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294.35 --- Boeddhisme: Dhamma--(morele wet) --- Buddhism --- Social aspects --- 294.35 Boeddhisme: Dhamma--(morele wet) --- Buddha and Buddhism --- Lamaism --- Ris-med (Lamaism) --- Religions --- Asia --- Buddhism - Social aspects - Asia.

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For many centuries Buddhism and Brahmanism coexisted in the Indian subcontinent. This book concentrates on the way in which the two, after an initial period of relative independence, confronted each other, both in and around the royal courts and in society at large. In this confrontation, Buddhism was strong in philosophical debate, but could not compete with Brahmanism in the services it could provide to the centres of political power, primarily ritual protection and practical advice. Buddhism evolved in both areas, providing practical advice to lay people and rulers from early Mahayana onward, and ritual protection in its Tantric developments. Some of these developments came too late, though, and could not prevent the disappearance of Buddhism from the subcontinent.

Buddhism --- Brahmanism --- Relations --- History --- Buddhism. --- Brahmanism. --- History. --- Bouddhisme --- Brahmanisme --- Histoire --- India --- Inde --- Religion --- Religions --- Hinduism --- Buddha and Buddhism --- Lamaism --- Ris-med (Lamaism) --- Buddhism - Relations - Brahmanism --- Brahmanism - Relations - Buddhism --- Buddhism - India - History

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This book convincingly reassesses the role of political institutions in the introduction of Buddhism under the Tibetan Empire (c. 620-842), showing how relationships formed in the Imperial period underlie many of the unique characteristics of traditional Tibetan Buddhism. Taking original sources as a point of departure, the author persuasively argues that later sources hitherto used for the history of early Tibetan Buddhism in fact project later ideas backward, thus distorting our view of its enculturation. Following the pattern of Buddhism’s spread elsewhere in Asia, the early Tibetan imperial court realized how useful normative Buddhist concepts were. This work clearly shows that, while some beliefs and practices per se changed after the Tibetan Empire, the model of socio-political-religious leadership developed in that earlier period survived its demise and still constitutes a significant element in contemporary Tibetan Buddhist religious culture.

Buddhism and state --China --Tibet --History. --- Buddhism --China --Tibet --History. --- Buddhism --- Buddhism and state --- Religion --- Philosophy & Religion --- History --- History. --- Lamaism and state --- State and Buddhism --- State, The

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In The Five-Colored Clouds of Mount Wutai: Poems from Dunhuang , Mary Anne Cartelli examines a set of poems from the Dunhuang manuscripts about Mount Wutai, the most sacred mountain in Chinese Buddhism. Dating from the Tang and Five Dynasties periods, they reflect the mountain’s transformation into the home of the bodhisattva Mañjuśrī, and provide important literary evidence for the development of Buddhism in China. This interdisciplinary study analyzes the poems using Buddhist scriptures and pilgrimage records, as well as the contemporaneous wall-painting of Mount Wutai in Dunhuang cave 61. The poems demonstrate how the mountain was created as a sacred Buddhist space, as their motifs reflect the cosmology associated with the mountain by the Tang dynasty, and they vividly portray the experience of the pilgrim traveling through a divinely empowered landscape.

Chinese poetry --- Buddhism --- Buddhism in literature. --- Buddha and Buddhism --- Lamaism --- Ris-med (Lamaism) --- Religions --- History and criticism. --- Mañjuśrī --- Wenshu --- Wenshu pu sa --- Wenshushili --- Wen shu shi li --- Wenshushili pu sa --- 文殊 --- 文殊菩萨 --- 文殊师利 --- 文殊師利 --- 文殊師利菩薩 --- 文殊师利菩萨 --- Dunhuang manuscripts. --- Tun-huang manuscripts --- Wutai Mountains (China) --- Dunhuang Caves (China) --- Ri-bo-rtse-lṅa (China Mountains) --- Wu-tʻai Mountains (China) --- Wu-tʻai shan (China : Mountains) --- Wutai Shan (China : Mountains) --- Wutaishan (China : Mountains) --- Antiquities. --- Mañjuśrī (Buddhist deity) --- Chinese literature --- Mañjūśrī