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<p>This article discusses the founding of Ngor (ngor) Monastery and several of its most important abbots. It was delivered at the first conference of the North American Tibetological Society, held at the Institute of Buddhist Studies in Berkeley, California on August 25, 1979.(Kevin Vose 2004-04-18)</p>
The book is a political, social and institutional history of tantric Buddhism in India. Its innovativeness lies in its attempt to historically place the rise of esoteric Buddhism not only within the doctrinal context of Indian Buddhism, but also within the framework of the larger social and political contexts of the time. In particular it explains the rise of the Buddhist mandala in terms of Indian Buddhist thought, practice, institutions, politics and communities, and stresses the metaphor of royal dominion as the key to understanding the rise of Indian Buddhist tantra. It is one of the most important works every written on Indian Buddhist tantra, and is especially powerful for its analysis of its birth as an independent movement in the sixth and seventh centuries. (David Germano 2007-10-20)
<p>The book is a political, social and institutional history of tantric Buddhism in India. Its innovativeness lies in its attempt to historically place the rise of esoteric Buddhism not only within the doctrinal context of Indian Buddhism, but also within the framework of the larger social and political contexts of the time. In particular it explains the rise of the Buddhist mandala in terms of Indian Buddhist thought, practice, institutions, politics and communities, and stresses the metaphor of royal dominion as the key to understanding the rise of Indian Buddhist tantra. It is one of the most important works every written on Indian Buddhist tantra, and is especially powerful for its analysis of its birth as an independent movement in the sixth and seventh centuries. (David Germano 2007-10-20)</p>
<b>Publisher's Description:</b> Collectively, the papers of this volume reveal the cultural dynamism of Tibet in the period between 900 and 1400CE, when the fundamental contours of Tibetan Buddhism were still fluid and highly contested.<br>The papers address a spectrum of issues in Tibetan religion and literature, ranging in time and space from the far eastern oasis of Dunhuang in the tenth century through 'high classical' developments in Central Tibet in the early fifteenth century. It is divided into four parts, addressing respectively literary and religious issues in tenth-century Dunhuang, the textual history of the Old Tantric Canon (Rnying ma'i rgyud 'bum), the development of Tibetan religious literature in the new translation period, and the history and transmission of several influential systems of esoteric Buddhism.