Encyclopaedia of Buddhist Tantra

Tiwari, Shiv Shanker

Language: English

Publisher: Anmol Publ.

Published: Dec 31, 2008

Description:

This book is about the various characteristics of tantric buddhism. History of tantric Buddhism in India is very old. Tantric texts began to apper in India by the third century CE and they continue through to Buddhism's effective disappearance from India during the twelfth century. From around the beginning of the eighth century tantric techniques and approached increasingly dominated Buddhist practice in India.