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Esoteric Buddhism in Mediaeval Maritime Asia - Networks of Masters, Texts, Icons (Paperback)
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Esoteric Buddhism in Mediaeval Maritime Asia - Networks of Masters, Texts, Icons (Paperback)
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This volume advocates a trans-regional, and maritime, approach to
studying the genesis, development and circulation of tantric (or
Esoteric) 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 tantric
Buddhist traditions spread. Capitalising on recent research and
making use of both disciplinary and area-focused perspectives, this
book highlights the role played by tantric 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 tantric Buddhism across
mediaeval Asia.
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