Buddhist Tantra: Methodology and Historiography

Download or read book Buddhist Tantra: Methodology and Historiography written by Pranshu Samdarshi and published by SABHI (Students for the Awareness of Buddhist Heritage of India), Delhi, India.. This book was released on 2019-01-24 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses our conventional ways of looking at Buddhism in general and Buddhist tantra in particular. It investigates how the frameworks and structures that were developed for European and Biblical studies have been deployed to interpret various facets of Buddhism. Many such models that still dominate the historical imagination of Buddhist studies have been examined in this book. This book also proposes an alternative approach towards the Buddhist studies and advocates incorporating the critical study of tantra texts from the perspective of traditional accounts.