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Indian esoteric Buddhism : a social history of the Tantric movement
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Indian esoteric Buddhism : a social history of the Tantric movement

Author: Ronald M Davidson
Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2002.
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Drawing on primary documents, this work describes the historical origins of the Tantric movement in early medieval India. It shows how changes in medieval Indian society led to the rise of the  Read more...

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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Ronald M Davidson
ISBN: 0231126182 9780231126182 0231126190 9780231126199
OCLC Number: 49773764
Description: xvi, 475 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Introduction: A plethora of premises --
Prayers in the palace, swords in the temple: early medieval India --
The medieval Buddhist experience --
The victory of esoterism and the imperial metaphor --
Siddhas and the religious landscape --
Siddhas, literature, and language --
Siddhas, monks, and communities --
Conclusion: The esoteric conundrum --
Appendix: Probable Patupata sites --
Glossary.
Responsibility: Ronald M. Davidson.

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A truly pioneering and wide-ranging work -- one much to be commended to students of all of the diverse phenomena that Davidson brings within its purview. -- Dan Arnold Journal of Religion This Read more...

 
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