ASIAN RELIGIONS
In the Land of Tigers and Snakes
Conjuring the Buddha Ritual Manuals in Early Tantric Buddhism
Living with Animals in Medieval Chinese Religions
Jacob P. Dalton
Huaiyu Chen
Huaiyu Chen examines how Buddhist ideas about animals changed and were changed by medieval Chinese culture. He explores the entangled relations among animals, religions, the state, and local communities, considering both the multivalent meanings associated with animals and the daily experience of living with the natural world.
Jacob P. Dalton offers a history of early tantric Buddhist ritual through the lens of the Tibetan manuscripts discovered near Dunhuang on the ancient Silk Road. He 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.
$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-20261-9
$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-20583-2
$140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-20260-2
$140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-20582-5
March 2023 312 pages 8 illus.
January 2023 344 pages 30 illus.
THE SHENG YEN SERIES IN CHINESE BUDDHIST STUDIES
The Dalai Lama’s Special Envoy
Searching for the Body A Contemporary Perspective on Tibetan Buddhist Tantra
Memoirs of a Lifetime in Pursuit of a Reunited Tibet
Rae Erin Dachille
Lodi Gyaltsen Gyari
Lodi Gyaltsen Gyari spent decades striving for resolution of the Tibetan-Chinese conflict. He was the Dalai Lama’s special envoy and chief negotiator with the People’s Republic of China in the formal negotiations over the status of Tibet. In this revealing memoir, Gyari chronicles his lifetime of service to the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan cause.
In the early fifteenth century, two Tibetan monks debated how to transform the body ritually into a celestial palace inhabited by buddhas. Searching for the Body demonstrates the significance of this debate for understandings of Tibetan Buddhism as well as conversations on representation and embodiment occurring across the disciplines today.
$40.00 / £30.00 cloth 978-0-231-20648-8
$120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-20608-2
November 2022 800 pages
$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-20609-9
2022 320 pages 12 illus.
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