The Taming of the demons [electronic resource] : violence and liberation in Tibetan Buddhism / Jacob P. Dalton.
Publication details: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2011.Description: x, 311 p. : illISBN:- 0300153929 (cloth : alkaline paper)
- 9780300153927
- 9780300153958 (e-book)
- 294.3/4342 22
- BQ8915.8 .D35 2011eb
eBooks
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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).
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