[PDF.72si] The Taming of the Demons: Violence and Liberation in Tibetan Buddhism

The Taming of the Demons: Violence and Liberation in Tibetan Buddhism

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 | #610558 in Books |  2013-01-08 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.02 x.73 x5.98l,.90 | File type: PDF | 328 pages

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||36 of 38 people found the following review helpful.| illuminating study|By inner exile|The first chapter introduces some relevant ideas pertaining to compassionate violence in the Maháyána sutras, which is followed by a synopsis of the Rudra (an epithet of the Hindu god Shíva) subjugation myth, an excellent full translation of which, taken from "The Collected Tantras of the Ancients" (rNying-ma'i rgyud 'bum| |"Dalton offers clear and concise explanations and provides background information, thus making the content accessible to upper-level undergraduates or graduate students with only a minimal understanding of tantric or Tibetan Buddhism . . . Highly recommended."

The Taming of the Demons examines mythic and ritual themes of violence, demon taming, and blood sacrifice in Tibetan Buddhism. Taking as its starting point Tibet’s so-called age of fragmentation (842 to 986 C.E.), the book draws on previously unstudied manuscripts discovered in the “library cave” near Dunhuang, on the old Silk Road. These ancient documents, it argues, demonstrate how this purportedly inactive period in Tibetan history was in fact...

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