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Powers of Protection: The Buddhist Tradition of Spells in the Dhāraṇīsaṃgraha Collections
by Powers of Protection: The Buddhist Tradition of Spells in the Dhāraṇīsaṃgraha Collections
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This sourcebook explores the most extensive tradition of Buddhist dhāraṇī 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 Dhāraṇīsaṃgraha 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.
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- De Gruyter Brand
- Jun 21, 2021 Pub Date:
- 9783110713046 ISBN-13:
- 3110713047 ISBN-10:
- English Language
- 9.21 in * 0.94 in * 6.14 in Dimensions:
- 2 lb Weight:
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