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Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-09-05 - Publisher: Anthem Press
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Language: en
Pages: 310
Pages: 310
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-12-21 - Publisher:
The Secrets of the Tathāgata, in Sanskrit, the Tathāgataguhya Sūtra, is a quintessential Mahāyāna sūtra on the nature of the body, speech, and mind of bod
Language: en
Pages: 311
Pages: 311
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-04-26 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Death rituals and Buddhist imagery of the afterlife have been central to the development and spread of Buddhism as a social and textual tradition. Bringing toge
Language: en
Pages: 256
Pages: 256
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-08-07 - Publisher: Routledge
Drawing on early Vedic sutras and Pali texts as well as archaeological and epigraphical material, this book provides a thorough analysis of the rituals and soci
Language: en
Pages: 324
Pages: 324
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998-07 - Publisher: Stanford University Press
Based on close readings of more than twenty Buddhist texts written in China from the 5th to the 13th century, this book demonstrates that Buddhist authors craft