The Taming of the demons [[electronic resource] ] : violence and liberation in Tibetan Buddhism / / Jacob P. Dalton

• Autore: Dalton Jacob Paul
• Pubblicazione: New Haven, : Yale University Press, 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (288 p.)
• Disciplina: 294.3/4342
• Soggetto topico: Tantric Buddhism - China - Tibet Autonomous Region; Violence - Religious aspects - Tantric Buddhism
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Evil and ignorance in Tantric Buddhism -- Demons in the dark -- A Buddhist manual for human sacrifice? -- Sacrifice and the law -- Foundational violence -- Buddhist warfare -- Conclusions : violence in the mirror -- Appendix A. The subjugation of Rudra -- Appendix B. Dunhuang Liberation Rite (Transcription of PT42/ITJ419) -- Appendix C. Dunhuang Liberation Rite II (Translation and Transliteration of PT840/1).
• Sommario/riassunto: The Taming of the Demons examines mythic and ritual themes of violence, demon taming, and blood sacrifice in Tibetan Buddhism. Taking as its starting point Tibet's so-called age of fragmentation (842 to 986 C.E.), the book draws on previously unstudied manuscripts discovered in the "library cave" near Dunhuang, on the old Silk Road. These ancient documents, it argues, demonstrate how this purportedly inactive period in Tibetan history was in fact crucial to the Tibetan assimilation of Buddhism, and particularly to the spread of violent themes from tantric Buddhism into Tibet at the local and the popular levels. Having shed light on this "dark age" of Tibetan history, the second half of the book turns to how, from the late tenth century onward, the period came to play a vital symbolic role in Tibet, as a violent historical "other" against which the Tibetan Buddhist tradition defined itself.
• Titolo autorizzato: The Taming of the demons
• ISBN: 1-283-15056-5; 9786613150561; 0-300-15395-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910781457803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II