Language in the Buddhist Tantra of Japan: The Indic Roots
Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Extraordinary Language Use -- 2 Is Language Communication? Extraordinary Language in the Face of Philosophy of Language -- 3 Indic Understandings of Language-From Vedas to Tantra -- 4 Eas...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Livre |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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London
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2018
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| Dans: | Année: 2018 |
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| Édition parallèle: | Print version: Payne, Richard K: Language in the Buddhist Tantra of Japan : The Indic Roots. - London : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC,c2018. - 9781350037267 |
| Résumé: | Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Extraordinary Language Use -- 2 Is Language Communication? Extraordinary Language in the Face of Philosophy of Language -- 3 Indic Understandings of Language-From Vedas to Tantra -- 4 East Asian Understandings of Language -- 5 Emptiness and Cosmogenesis in the Tantric Buddhism of Japan -- 6 The Clear Light Mantra: Religious Agency in Medieval Japanese Buddhist Ritual -- 7 The Authority of the Speech of the Buddha: Aural Dimensions of Epistemology -- 8 Dhāraṇī in the Lotus Sūtra: Indic Context for the Power of Words -- 9 Ajikan: Visualizing the Syllable A -- 10 Concluding Reflections -- Character Glossary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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| ISBN: | 1350037273 |