Powers of Protection : The Buddhist Tradition of Spells in the Dhāraṇīsaṃgraha Collections /

Powers of Protection : The Buddhist Tradition of Spells in the Dhāraṇīsaṃgraha Collections /

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Author / Creator:Hidas, Gergely, author
Imprint:Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2021]
©2021
Description:1 online resource (VI, 418 pages)
Language:English
Series:Beyond Boundaries ; 9
Subject:
Buddhist dhāraṇī.
Buddhist mantras.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Buddhism.
Buddhism.
Buddhist dhāraṇī
Buddhist mantras.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13346873
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Other authors / contributors:European Research Council (ERC) funder.
ISBN:3110713365
9783110713367
Digital file characteristics:text file
PDF
Notes:Open Access
Funded by European Research Council (ERC)
In English.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Jun 2021).
Summary:This sourcebook explores the most extensive tradition of Buddhist dhāraṇī 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 Dhāraṇīsaṃgraha 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.
Other form:Print version: 9783110713046
Standard no.:10.1515/9783110713367

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