1. Special Issue: Asian Ritual Systems: Syncretisms and Ruptures
2. Vesna A. Wallace, University of California, Santa Barbara
摘要
This essay contains historical and comparative analyses of the rituals of protection and empowerment in South Asian Buddhism. It argues that distinctions among the rituals of different Buddhist groups and periods should be examined in the light of both the doctrinal changes within the Buddhist tradition and the religious and political climates in which they developed. It also calls attention to the fact that Buddhist esoteric rites of protection had a dual function, soteriological and mundane.
目次
Abstract 115 Introduction 115 Deities, Spirits, and Rites of Protection in the Early Buddhism 115 Deities, Spirits and Early Buddhist Rites 117 The Rituals of Protection and Purificaton in the Mahāyāna Buddhism 120 The Ritual Empowerment, Purification, and Transformation in Tantric Buddhism 122 The Rites of Protection, Possession, and Transformation as the Means of Empowerment 123 Endnotes 126 References 127 Bibliographical Sketch 128
