Esoteric Buddhism in Mediaeval Maritime Asia : Networks of Masters, Texts, Icons / Andrea Acri.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- CONVENTIONS -- 1. Introduction: Esoteric Buddhist Networks along the Maritime Silk Routes, 7th–13th Century ad / Acri, Andrea -- PART I: MONKS, TEXTS, PATRONS -- 2. Coronation and Liberation According to a Javanese Monk in China: Bianhong’s Manual on the abhiṣeka of a cakravartin / Sinclair, Iain -- 3. Saṅ Hyaṅ Kamahāyānikan, Borobudur, and the Origins of Esoteric Buddhism in Indonesia / Kandahjaya, Hudaya -- 4. Traces of Indonesian Influences in Tibet / Schoterman, Jan A. -- 5. The Politics of Esoteric Buddhism: Amoghavajra and the Tang State / Goble, Geoffrey -- 6. (Spi)ritual Warfare in 13th-Century Asia? International Relations, the Balance of Powers, and the Tantric Buddhism of Kṛtanagara and Khubilai Khan / Bade, David -- PART II: ART, ARCHITECTURE, AND MATERIAL CULTURE -- 7. Images of Devotion and Power in South and Southeast Bengal / Bautze-Picron, Claudine -- 8. Borobudur’s Pāla Forebear? A Field Note from Kesariya, Bihar, India / Chemburkar, Swati -- 9. Imagery, Ritual, and Ideology: Examining the Mahāvihāra at Ratnagiri / Reichle, Natasha -- 10. Seeds of Vajrabodhi: Buddhist Ritual Bronzes from Java and Khorat / Sharrock, Peter D. / Bunker, Emma C. -- 11. Archaeological Evidence for Esoteric Buddhism in Sumatra, 7th to 13th Century / Miksic, John -- 12. The Tale of Sudhana and Manoharā on Candi Jago: An Interpretation of a Series of Narrative Bas-reliefs on a 13th-Century East Javanese Monument / O’Brien, Kate -- PART III: BAUDDHA-ŚAIVA DYNAMICS -- 13. Once More on the ‘Ratu Boko Mantra’: Magic, Realpolitik, and Bauddha-Śaiva Dynamics in Ancient Nusantara / Acri, Andrea -- 14. Mid-9th-Century Adversity for Sinhalese Esoteric Buddhist Exemplars in Java: Lord Kumbhayoni and the ‘Rag-wearer’ Paṁsukūlika Monks of the Abhayagirivihāra / Sundberg, Jeffrey R. -- 15. A Śaiva Text in Chinese Garb? An Annotated Translation of the Suji liyan Moxishouluo tian shuo aweishe fa / Giebel, Rolf W. -- APPENDIX A: The Names of Nāgabuddhi and Vajrabuddhi / Sinclair, Iain -- APPENDIX B: Notes on the Alleged Reading vālaputra on the Pikatan Funeral Stele / Sundberg, Jeffrey R. -- THE CONTRIBUTORS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

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