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Powers of Protection : The Buddhist Tradition of Spells in the Dhāraṇīsaṃgraha Collections /
- Title
- Powers of Protection : The Buddhist Tradition of Spells in the Dhāraṇīsaṃgraha Collections / Gergely Hidas.
- Author
- Hidas, Gergely, 1970-
- Publication
- Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2021]
- ©2021
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- Description
- vi, 418 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- This sourcebook explores the most extensive tradition of Buddhist dharani literature and provides access to the earliest available materials for the first time: a unique palm-leaf bundle from the 12th-13th centuries and a paper manuscript of 1719 CE. The Dharanisamgraha collections have been present in South Asia, and especially in Nepal, for more than eight hundred years and served to supply protection, merit and auspiciousness for those who commissioned their compilation. For modern scholarship, these diverse compendiums are valuable sources of incantations and related texts, many of which survive in Sanskrit only in such manuscripts.
- Series Statement
- Beyond Boundaries ; 9
- Uniform Title
- Beyond boundaries (Walter De Gruyter & Co.) ; 9.
- Alternative Title
- Buddhist Tradition of Spells in the Dhāraṇīsaṃgraha Collections
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-396) and indexes.
- ISBN
- 3110713047
- 9783110713046
- 9783110713367
- 3110713365
- LCCN
- 2020952694
- OCLC
- 1191245396
- on1191245396
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library