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Gergely Hidas

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The Buddhist Tradition of Spells in the Dhāraṇīsaṃgraha Collections

Gergely Hidas
Funded by: European Research Council (ERC)

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2021

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This sourcebook explores the most extensive tradition of Buddhist dhāraṇī 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 Dhāraṇīsaṃgraha 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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Gergely Hidas, British Museum, London.

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	I
Contents Open Access Download PDF	V
Acknowledgements Open Access Download PDF	VII
1 Introduction Open Access Download PDF	1
2 An Edition of Cambridge Ms. Add. 1680.8 Open Access Download PDF	9
3 An Edition of Cambridge Ms. Add. 1326 Open Access Download PDF	57
Appendices
A.1 Gilgit spell texts (ca. 6^th–7^th c.) Open Access Download PDF	303
A.2 Lhan Kar Ma catalogue spells and related texts (ca. 800 CE) Open Access Download PDF	304
A.3 Asiatic Society of Bengal, Kolkata, Ms. B 5 Open Access Download PDF	309
A.4 University of Tokyo Library, Ms. 201 Open Access Download PDF	311
A.5 University of Tokyo Library, Ms. 420 Open Access Download PDF	314
A.6 Private collection Ms., Kathmandu = NGMPP E 1774–3 Open Access Download PDF	320
A.7 National Archives, Kathmandu, Ms. NAK 5/31 = NGMPP B 107–14 Open Access Download PDF	323
A.8 Unspecified collection Ms. and Asha Archives, Kathmandu, Ms. 2507 Open Access Download PDF	326
A.9 Bodleian Library, Oxford, Ms. 1449 – Ms. Hodgson 6 Open Access Download PDF	330
A.10 Asha Archives, Kathmandu, Ms. No. 2566 Open Access Download PDF	334
A.11 Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, Ms. No. 62 Open Access Download PDF	339
A.12 Royal Asiatic Society, London, Hodgson Ms. 55 Open Access Download PDF	344
A.13 Private collection Ms., Kathmandu = NGMPP E 614–3 Open Access Download PDF	345
A.14 University of Tokyo Library, Ms. 419 Open Access Download PDF	350
A.15 University of Tokyo Library, Ms. 418 Open Access Download PDF	355
A.16 Toyo Bunko, Tokyo, Ms. No. 13 Open Access Download PDF	360
A.17 National Archives, Kathmandu, Ms. NAK 3/589 = NGMPP A 131–9, A 861/13 Open Access Download PDF	368
A.18 National Archives, Kathmandu, Ms. NAK 3/641 = NGMPP A 131–10 Open Access Download PDF	378
References Open Access Download PDF	391
Index Open Access Download PDF	397

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June 21, 2021

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9783110713367

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June 21, 2021

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9783110713046

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6

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418

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4

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110713367

eBook ISBN: 9783110713367

Hardcover ISBN: 9783110713046

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Buddhism; dharani; Nepal; magic

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Scholars, students, and institutes of Buddism, ancient texts, religion in Nepal

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