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Language in the Buddhist Tantra of Japan :

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1350037265

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9781350037267

Erroneous ISBN

9781350037274

Erroneous ISBN

9781350037281

Title Proper

Language in the Buddhist Tantra of Japan :

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[Book]

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Indic roots of mantra /

First Statement of Responsibility

Richard K. Payne.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York, NY :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Bloomsbury Academic,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2018.

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©2018

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

x, 238 pages ;

Dimensions

24 cm

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

Extraordinary language use -- Is language communication?: extraordinary language in the face of philosophy of language -- Indic understandings of language: from Vedas to tantra -- East Asian understandings of language -- Emptiness and cosmogenesis in the Tantric Buddhism of Japan -- The clear light mantra homa: religious agency in medieval Japanese Buddhist ritual -- The authority of the speech of the Buddha: aural dimensions of epistemology -- Dhara'i in the Lotus Sutra: Indic context for the power of words -- Ajikan: visualizing the syllable A.

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"Buddhism is often preconceived and stereotyped as a religion of 'mystical silence', but Richard K. Payne argues that language is in fact central to the Buddhist tradition. By examining the use of Japanese Buddhist Tantra and 'extraordinary language', invocations calling on the power of the Buddha, Payne shows that such language was not simply 'cultural baggage' carried by Buddhist practitioners from South to East Asia. Rather, such language was a key element in the propagation of new forms of belief and practice. Whereas Western approaches to the philosophy of language are grounded in language as a form of communication, this book argues that it is the Indian and East Asian philosophies of language that shed light on the use of language in meditative and ritual practices in Japan. It also explains why it was conceived as an effective means of progress on the path from delusion to 'awakening'"--

International Standard Book Number

9781350037274

Language and languages-- Religious aspects-- Tantric Buddhism.

Tantric Buddhism-- Japan-- Doctrines.

Tantric Buddhism-- Doctrines.

Japan.

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Edition

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Payne, Richard K.

Date of Transaction

20200822174111.0

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[Book]

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