Bringing together leading authorities in the fields of Chinese and Tibetan Studies alike, Chinese and Tibetan Esoteric Buddhism engages cutting-edge research on the fertile tradition of Esoteric Buddhism (also known as Tantric Buddhism). This state of the art volume unfolds the sweeping impact of esoteric Buddhism on Tibetan and Chinese cultures, and the movement's role in forg...(展开全部)

This volume is the result of an international collaboration of forty scholars and provides a comprehensive resource on Esoteric Buddhism and the Tantras in their Chinese, Korean, and Japanese contexts from the first few centuries of the common era right up to the present.--Publisher.

Chinese Esoteric Buddhism is generally held to have been established as a distinct and institutionalized Buddhist school in eighth-century China by “the Three Great Masters of Kaiyuan”: Śubhākarasiṃha, Vajrabodhi, and Amoghavajra. Geoffrey C. Goble provides an innovative account of the tradition’s emergence that sheds new light on the structures and traditions that shaped its i...(展开全部)

This book explores the Buddhist role in the formation of Tibetan religious thought and identity. In three major sections, the author examines Tibet's eighth-century conversion, sources of dispute within the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, and the continuing revelation of the teaching in both doctrine and myth.

芮沃寿(ArthurF.Wright，1913－1976)，20世纪中叶美国汉学研究的领军人物之一，与费正清同为美国汉学研究的奠基人。1947年获哈佛大学哲学博士学位，专攻佛教及隋唐史，曾任斯坦福大学及耶鲁大学教授。1951年与费正清等成立中国思想研究会，担任主席。他还是美国历史协会、美国亚洲研究协会会员，并长期担任中华文明研究委员会会长。

芮沃寿(ArthurF.Wright，1913－1976)，20世纪中叶美国汉学研究的领军人物之一，与费正清同为美国汉学研究的奠基人。1947年获哈佛大学哲学博士学位，专攻佛教及隋唐史，曾任斯坦福大学及耶鲁大学教授。1951年与费正清等成立中国思想研究会，担任主席。他还是美国历史协会、美国亚洲研究协会会员，并长期担任中华文明研究委员会会长。