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Indian Esoteric Buddhism: A Social History of the Tantric Movement

By Davidson , Ronald M

Book information

Publisher
Columbia University Press
Year
2012
ISBN
9780231501026, 0231126182, 0231126190, 0231501021
Language
english
Format
MOBI
Filesize
3 MB (3175584 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52

Description

This groundbreaking work describes the historical origins of the Tantric movement in early medieval India. Drawing on primary documents—translated into English for the first time from Sanskrit, Prakrit, and Bengali—Davidson shows how changes in medieval Indian society, including economic and patronage crises, a decline in women's participation, and the formation of large monastic orders, led to the rise of the esoteric tradition in India that became the model for Buddhist cultures in China, Tibet, and Japan.

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