RT Book
T1 Esoteric Buddhism in mediaeval maritime Asia: networks of masters, texts, icons
T2 Nalanda-Sriwijaya series
A2 Acri, Andrea
LA English
PP Singapore
PB ISEAS Yusof Ishak Institute
YR 2016
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1005315159
AB This volume advocates a trans-regional, and maritime-focused, approach to studying the genesis, development and circulation of Esoteric (or Tantric) Buddhism across Maritime Asia from the seventh to the thirteenth centuries CE. The book lays emphasis on the mobile networks of human agents ('Masters'), textual sources ('Texts') and images ('Icons') through which Esoteric Buddhist traditions spread. Capitalising on recent research and making use of both disciplinary and area-focused perspectives, this book highlights the role played by Esoteric Buddhist maritime networks in shaping intra-Asian connectivity. In doing so, it reveals the limits of a historiography that is premised on land-based transmission of Buddhism from a South Asian 'homeland', and advances an alternative historical narrative that overturns the popular perception regarding Southeast Asia as a 'periphery' that passively received overseas influences. Thus, a strong point is made for the appreciation of the region as both a crossroads and rightful terminus of Buddhist cults, and for the re-evaluation of the creative and transformative force of Southeast Asian agents in the transmission of Esoteric Buddhism across mediaeval Asia.
NO Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Aug 2017)
CN BQ8912.9.I6
SN 9789814695091
K1 Tantric Buddhism : Indonesia.
K1 Tantric Buddhism : India.
K1 Buddhist art and symbolism : Indonesia.
K1 Buddhist art and symbolism : India.
K1 Tantric Buddhism : India
K1 Buddhist art and symbolism : India
K1 Buddhist art and symbolism : Indonesia
K1 Tantric Buddhism : Indonesia
K1 Tantric Buddhism ; Indonesia
K1 Tantric Buddhism ; India
K1 Buddhist art and symbolism ; Indonesia
K1 Buddhist art and symbolism ; India
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