Production of Tantric Buddhist Texts in the Tangut Empire (11th to 13th c.): Insights from Reading Karakhoto Manuscript ф 249 + ф 327 Jingang haimu xiuxi yi [The Ritual of the Yogic Practice of Vajravārāhī] in Comparison with Other Tantric Ritual Texts
Thanks to imperial patronage in the Tangut Empire (ca. 1038-1227, known in Chinese sources as Xixia 西夏) - situated at the crossroads of Central Asian, Tibetan, and Chinese cultures and languages in Eastern Central Asia - Tantric Buddhist texts were for the first time in history systematically transl...
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Peeters Publishers
2021
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Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies
Year: 2021, Volume: 44, Pages: 441-484 |
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