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The Buddhist Tradition of Spells in the Dharanisamgraha Collections
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-3-11-071304-6
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, Sanskrit, 418 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 746 g

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This sourcebook explores the most extensive tradition of Buddhist dharani literature and provides access to the earliest available materials for the first time: a unique palm-leaf bundle from the 12th–13th centuries and a paper manuscript of 1719 CE. The Dharanisamgraha collections have been present in South Asia, and especially in Nepal, for more than eight hundred years and served to supply protection, merit and auspiciousness for those who commissioned their compilation. For modern scholarship, these diverse compendiums are valuable sources of incantations and related texts, many of which survive in Sanskrit only in such manuscripts.

Zielgruppe

Scholars, students, and institutes of Buddism, ancient texts, rel

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hidas, Gergely

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Buddhismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Gergely Hidas, British Museum, London.