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Record Nr.

UNINA9910774800803321

Autore

Hidas Gergely <1970->

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

3-11-071336-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (VI, 418 p.)

Collana

Beyond Boundaries ; ; 9

Disciplina

294.385

Soggetti

RELIGION / Buddhism / History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- 2 An Edition of Cambridge Ms. Add. 1680.8 -- 3 An Edition of Cambridge Ms. Add. 1326 -- Appendices -- A.1 Gilgit spell texts (ca. 6th-7th c.) -- A.2 Lhan Kar Ma catalogue spells and related texts (ca. 800 CE) -- A.3 Asiatic Society of Bengal, Kolkata, Ms. B 5 -- A.4 University of Tokyo Library, Ms. 201 -- A.5 University of Tokyo Library, Ms. 420 -- A.6 Private collection Ms., Kathmandu = NGMPP E 1774-3 -- A.7 National Archives, Kathmandu, Ms. NAK 5/31 = NGMPP B 107-14 -- A.8 Unspecified collection Ms. and Asha Archives, Kathmandu, Ms. 2507 -- A.9 Bodleian Library, Oxford, Ms. 1449 - Ms. Hodgson 6 -- A.10 Asha Archives, Kathmandu, Ms. No. 2566 -- A.11 Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, Ms. No. 62 -- A.12 Royal Asiatic Society, London, Hodgson Ms. 55 -- A.13 Private collection Ms., Kathmandu = NGMPP E 614-3 -- A.14 University of Tokyo Library, Ms. 419 -- A.15 University of Tokyo Library, Ms. 418 -- A.16 Toyo Bunko, Tokyo, Ms. No. 13 -- A.17 National Archives, Kathmandu, Ms. NAK 3/589 = NGMPP A 131-9, A 861/13 -- A.18 National Archives, Kathmandu, Ms. NAK 3/641 = NGMPP A 131-10 -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.