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Vajrayana Buddhism: Study In Social Iconography

by Umakant Mishra

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  Contrary to existing historiography of early medieval religions, which often deals Vajrayana Buddhism as a declining and degenerated religion confined to monastic complex only, the book argues that Vajrayana Buddhism was an instrumental and social religion. Working on social iconography, the author uses iconographic, epigraphic and textual sources to show that Buddhism made vertical and horizontal expansion in Orissa in early medieval period. As a social, instrumental religion, it innovated numerous deities, introduced new rituals for laities, wrote litanies in praises of Buddhist gods and goddesses and imbued deities with instrumental functions. But these changes occurred within the • evolving normative tradition of Buddhism itself. These changes in Buddhism occurred at a time when Brahman cal religions were expanding in Orissa.

ISBN - 8177021893
 


Pages : 212
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