Powers of Protection
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Powers of Protection

The Buddhist Tradition of Spells in the Dhāraṇīsaṃgraha Collections

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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 dh?ra?? 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 Dh?ra??sa?graha 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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Publisher
De Gruyter
Year
2021
ISBN
9783110713367
Edition
1
Topic
Teología y religión
Subtopic
Budismo

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgements
  3. 1 Introduction
  4. 2 An Edition of Cambridge Ms. Add. 1680.8
  5. 3 An Edition of Cambridge Ms. Add. 1326
  6. Appendices
  7. A.1 Gilgit spell texts (ca. 6<sup>th</sup>–7<sup>th</sup> c.)
  8. A.2 Lhan Kar Ma catalogue spells and related texts (ca. 800 CE)
  9. A.3 Asiatic Society of Bengal, Kolkata, Ms. B 5
  10. A.4 University of Tokyo Library, Ms. 201
  11. A.5 University of Tokyo Library, Ms. 420
  12. A.6 Private collection Ms., Kathmandu = NGMPP E 1774–3
  13. A.7 National Archives, Kathmandu, Ms. NAK 5/31 = NGMPP B 107–14
  14. A.8 Unspecified collection Ms. and Asha Archives, Kathmandu, Ms. 2507
  15. A.9 Bodleian Library, Oxford, Ms. 1449 – Ms. Hodgson 6
  16. A.10 Asha Archives, Kathmandu, Ms. No. 2566
  17. A.11 Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, Ms. No. 62
  18. A.12 Royal Asiatic Society, London, Hodgson Ms. 55
  19. A.13 Private collection Ms., Kathmandu = NGMPP E 614–3
  20. A.14 University of Tokyo Library, Ms. 419
  21. A.15 University of Tokyo Library, Ms. 418
  22. A.16 Toyo Bunko, Tokyo, Ms. No. 13
  23. A.17 National Archives, Kathmandu, Ms. NAK 3/589 = NGMPP A 131–9, A 861/13
  24. A.18 National Archives, Kathmandu, Ms. NAK 3/641 = NGMPP A 131–10
  25. References
  26. Index