Tibetan Tantra and Chinese esoteric Buddhism in the melting pot
- This paper is devoted to an elucidation of the Chinese manuscript of the Jingang ershiba jie 金剛二十八戒 [Twenty-eight Vajra Precepts], which appear as part of a ritual manual located among the manuscripts from Dunhuang (敦煌) (P. 3861 (3)). This Tantric Buddhist text, in which the proper behaviour of a Tantric adept is set forth, was most likely transmitted via Tibetan Buddhism to the Chinese Buddhist community in Dunhuang in the course of the 9–10th centuries. The paper explores the history of the Twenty-eight Vajra Precepts as reflected in a number of Dunhuang manuscripts, and seeks to contextualise it as well as accounting for its usage in local Buddhist practice. A fully annotated translation accompanies the presentation.
| Author: | Henrik Hjort SørensenORCiDGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:294-70533 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.13154/rub.br.124.110 |
| Subtitle (English): | a study of a Chinese recension of the twenty-eight Vajra precepts |
| Series (Serial Number): | BuddhistRoad Paper (2.2) |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2020/03/12 |
| Date of first Publication: | 2020/03/12 |
| Publishing Institution: | Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Universitätsbibliothek |
| Tag: | BuddhistRoad, Project ID: 725519 |
| Pagenumber: | 33 |
| Note: | BuddhistRoad, Project ID: 725519 |
| Relation (DC): | info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/725519 |
| Institutes/Facilities: | Centrum für Religionswissenschaftliche Studien (CERES) |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | Religion / Andere Religionen |
| OpenAIRE: | OpenAIRE |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 - Namensnennung - Nicht kommerziell - Keine Bearbeitungen 4.0 International |
