Luminous bliss
Subtitle: a religious history of Pure Land literature in Tibet : with an annotated English translation and critical analysis of the Orgyan-gling gold manuscript of the short Sukhavativyuha-sutra
By: Georgios T. Halkias
Series: Pure Land Buddhist studies; Pure Land Buddhist studies
Publisher: University of Hawaiʻi Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Honolulu
Language: eng
Number of pages: 335
ISBN-13: 9780824835903
Subjects: Tibetan Buddhist literature; Tripiṭaka; Pure Land Buddhism; History and criticism
Other titles: Tripiṭaka. Sūtrapiṭaka. Sukhāvatīvyūha (Smaller). English.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Indian Mahayana origins and departures; title: Pure lands and the Tibetan empire; title: The dharma that goes against the ways of the world; title: Tibetan Pure Land commentaries; title: Tantric transfer in Sukhavati; title: The celestial treasures of Buddha Amitabha.