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Conjuring the Buddha - Ritual Manuals in Early Tantric Buddhism (Paperback)
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Conjuring the Buddha - Ritual Manuals in Early Tantric Buddhism (Paperback)
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Ritual manuals are among the most common and most personal forms of
Buddhist literature. Since at least the late fifth century,
individual practitioners-including monks, nuns, teachers,
disciples, and laypeople-have kept texts describing how to perform
the daily rites. These manuals represent an intimate counterpart to
the canonical sutras and the tantras, speaking to the lived
experience of Buddhist practice. Conjuring the Buddha offers a
history of early tantric Buddhist ritual through the lens of the
Tibetan manuscripts discovered near Dunhuang on the ancient Silk
Road. Jacob P. Dalton argues that the spread of ritual manuals
offered Buddhists an extracanonical literary form through which to
engage with their tradition in new and locally specific ways. He
suggests that ritual manuals were the literary precursors to the
tantras, crucial to the emergence of esoteric Buddhism. Examining a
series of ninth- and tenth-century tantric manuals from Dunhuang,
Dalton uncovers lost moments in the development of rituals such as
consecration, possession, sexual yoga, the Great Perfection, and
the subtle body practices of the winds and channels. He also traces
the use of poetic language in ritual manuals, showing how at
pivotal moments, metaphor, simile, rhythm, and rhyme were deployed
to evoke carefully sculpted affective experiences. Offering an
unprecedented glimpse into the personal practice of early tantric
Buddhists, Conjuring the Buddha provides new insight into the
origins and development of the tantric tradition.
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