The Buddhist Tantras: Light on Indo-Tibetan Esotericism

by Alex Wayman (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2008

  $181.30

  Divided into four sections, this work gives an introduction that places the position of the Buddhist Tantras within Mahayana Buddhism and recalls their early literary history, especially the Guhyasamahatantra. It covers Buddhist Genesis and the Tantric tradition. It also discusses the foundations of the Buddhist Tantras.