作者: Geoffrey C. Goble / Jimmy Yu / Daniel Stevenson出版社: Columbia University Press副标题: Amoghavajra, the Ruling Elite, and the Emergence of a Tradition出版年: 2019-11-5页数: 312定价: GBP 54.00装帧: HardcoverISBN: 9780231194082 Chinese Esoteric Buddhism is generally held to have been established as a distinct and institutionalized Buddhist school in eighth-century China by “the Three Great Masters of Kaiyuan”: Śubhākarasiṃha, Vajrabodhi, and Amoghavajra. Geoffrey C. Goble provides an innovative account of the tradition’s emergence that sheds new light on the structures and traditions that shaped its institutionalization. Goble focuses on Amoghavajra (704–774), contending that he was the central figure in Esoteric Buddhism’s rapid rise in Tang dynasty China, and the other two “patriarchs” are known primarily through Amoghavajra’s teac
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