Chinese Esoteric Buddhism: Amoghavajra, the Ruling Elite, and the Emergence of a Tradition

by Geoffrey C Goble and Geoffrey C. Goble

Chinese Esoteric Buddhism is generally held to have been established as a distinct and institutionalized Buddhist school in eighth-century China by "the Three Great Masters of Kaiyuan" Śubhākarasiṃha, Vajrabodhi, and Amoghavajra. Geoffrey C. Goble provides an innovative account of the tradition's emergence that sheds new light on the structures and traditions that shaped its institutionalization.

Goble focuses on Amoghavajra...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231194080
• ISBN13: 9780231194082
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"