The taming of the demons [electronic resource] : violence and liberation in Tibetan Buddhism / Jacob P. Dalton.
2011
BQ8915.8 .D35 2011eb
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Title
The taming of the demons [electronic resource] : violence and liberation in Tibetan Buddhism / Jacob P. Dalton.
Author
Dalton, Jacob Paul.
ISBN
9780300153958 (electronic book)
0300153929
9780300153927
0300153929
9780300153927
Publication Details
New Haven : Yale University Press, 2011.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (x, 311 p.) : ill.
Call Number
BQ8915.8 .D35 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
294.3/4342
Summary
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 crucial to the Tibetan assimilation of Buddhism, and particularly to the spread of violent themes from tantric Buddhism into Tibet at the local and the popular levels. Having shed light on this "dark age" of Tibetan history, the second half of the book turns to how, from the late tenth century onward, the period came to play a vital symbolic role in Tibet, as a violent historical "other" against which the Tibetan Buddhist tradition defined itself.
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Table of Contents
Evil and ignorance in Tantric Buddhism
Demons in the dark
A Buddhist manual for human sacrifice?
Sacrifice and the law
Foundational violence
Buddhist warfare
Conclusions : violence in the mirror
Appendix A. The subjugation of Rudra
Appendix B. Dunhuang Liberation Rite (Transcription of PT42/ITJ419)
Appendix C. Dunhuang Liberation Rite II (Translation and Transliteration of PT840/1).
Demons in the dark
A Buddhist manual for human sacrifice?
Sacrifice and the law
Foundational violence
Buddhist warfare
Conclusions : violence in the mirror
Appendix A. The subjugation of Rudra
Appendix B. Dunhuang Liberation Rite (Transcription of PT42/ITJ419)
Appendix C. Dunhuang Liberation Rite II (Translation and Transliteration of PT840/1).