new publication on Tantric Buddhism

[mkapstei at UCHICAGO.EDU]

With apologies for cross-posting:

I am pleased to announce the imminent publication
of _Esoteric Buddhism at Dunhuang: Rites and Teachings
for this Life and Beyond_, edited by Matthew Kapstein
and Sam van Schaik, and published by Brill. (It may
now be ordered on the brill.nl website.) The contents are:


RITES AND TEACHINGS FOR THIS LIFE…

CATHY CANTWELL AND ROBERT MAYER
A Dunhuang Phurpa Consecration Rite:
IOL Tib J 331.III’s Consecrations Section

SAM VAN SCHAIK
The Limits of Transgression: The Samaya vows of Mahāyoga

KAMMIE MORRISON TAKAHASHI
Ritual and Philosophical Speculation
in the Rdo rje Sems dpa’i zhus lan


… AND BEYOND

YOSHIRO IMAEDA
The Bar do thos grol, or ‘The Tibetan Book of the Dead’:
Tibetan Conversion to Buddhism or Tibetanisation of
Buddhism?

MATTHEW T. KAPSTEIN
Between Na rak and a Hard Place: Evil rebirth
and the Violation of Vows in Early Rnying ma pa
Sources and Their Dunhuang Antecedents

KATHERINE R. TSIANG
Buddhist Printed Images and Texts of the Eighth-Tenth
Centuries: Typologies of Replication and Representation

The volume should be ready for distribution within the
next few weeks.



Matthew T. Kapstein
Numata Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies
The University of Chicago Divinity School

Directeur d'études
Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris