Tantric Buddhism in East Asia

From: Japanese Journal of Religious Studies | Date: January 1, 2007| Author: Whelan, Christal | Copyright information

Richard K. Payne, ed., Tantric Buddhism in East Asia Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2006, 304 pp. $19.95 paper, ISBN 0-86171-487-3.

IN THE INTRODUCTION to Tantric Buddhism in East Asia, Richard Payne asks all the right questions: "Are we talking about a specific, clearly delineated lineage of transmission? A more general movement? A ritual technology? Or a diffuse set of practices and doctrines that permeate Buddhism throughout its East Asian history?" In other words, how can one pin dow...

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