An Introduction to Tantric Buddhism (An Introduction to Tāntric Buddhism)
Origins of Tantric Buddhism, Mahāyāna background, prajñā-upāya, bodhicitta, yoga and the Vajrayāna and Sahajiyā schools.
- Language
- English
- Author
- Shashi Bhushan Dasgupta
- Extent
- 1,042 passages, 76,343 words
- Text
- complete digital text
- Source
- archive.org · University of Calcutta 1950; scan on archive.org, OCR Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite; chapters and sections by Gemini… · Public domain in India: every author died before 1966 (Shashi Bhushan Dasgupta †1964)
Contents
- c1 Front matter — 16 parts
- c2 Contents — 30 parts
- c3 Preface — 9 parts
- c4 Acknowledgments — 3 parts
- c5 Abbreviations — 1 part
- c6 Chapter I. Preliminary — 3 parts
- c7 Chapter II. Unsystematised Philosophical Fragments Found in the Buddhist Tantras — 96 parts
- c8 Chapter III. Schools of Tāntric Buddhism — 3 parts
- c9 Chapter IV. The Theological Position of the Tāntric Buddhists — 5 parts
- c10 Chapter V. The Element of Esoteric Yoga — 6 parts
- c11 Chapter VI. The Argument of the Tāntric Buddhists in Defence of Their Yoga — 101 parts
- c12 Bibliography — 23 parts
- c13 Index — 44 parts