About the Book: Buddhist Tantricism
The present edition deals with a tantric image in the historical development of
Buddhist theo-philosophy and its impact on Buddhist communities in India and
other Buddhist countries. In this edition, I intend to recover the missing links
in the history of tantric thoughts through an investigation of the theoretical
and practical situations of two important texts which fall between the
Tattvasamgraha-tantra and the Hevajra-tantra, that is, the Guhyasamaja-tantra
and the Sarvabuddha-samayogadakini-maya samvara-tantra. My investigation is
centred upon the practice of svadhidaivatayoga (union with a specific deity of a
mandala), which is assumed to be prevalent in the whole course of Tantric
Buddhism...
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