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Indian Esoteric Buddhism: A Social History of the Tantric Movement
Ronald M. Davidson
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| #2114116 in Books | Ronald M Davidson | 2003-01-15 | 2003-02-05 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x1.12 x6.00l,1.44 | File type: PDF | 400 pages | Indian Esoteric Buddhism A Social History of the Tantric Movement||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Ambitious, but flawed and incomplete|By James|"Indian Esoteric Buddhism" is a remarkable and ambitious work. As Davidson goes through an account of the political and economic pressures besieging the Indian monastic establishment, he advances the thesis--with partial success, I think--that Vajrayana arose from the threat to institutional monastic Buddhism caused by the feudaliza
Despite the rapid spread of Buddhism―especially the esoteric system of Tantra, one of its most popular yet most misunderstood forms―the historical origins of Buddhist thought and practice remain obscure. This groundbreaking work describes the genesis of the Tantric movement in early medieval India, where it developed as a response to, and in some ways an example of, the feudalization of Indian society. Drawing on primary documents―many translated for the first time...
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