What is "texts"

Usage examples of "texts".

This standardisation was extended to all texts already translated so that the Tibetan Buddhist has to this day a coherent vocabulary and phraseology with which to handle the sophisticated theological traditions that his ancestors adopted from many centuries of previous development in Indian Buddhism.

Buddhists, though by no means all, are described in supposedly secret texts called Tantras and the word Tantrism is therefore used to designate this stage of Buddhism and Hinduism.

French, Russian, American and British scholars and manuscripts and blockprinted texts entered foreign libraries.

Central Asian texts, the accounts of Muslim writers and early European authors on Asia.

Tantric texts multiplied so did the prescribed combinations for a mandala, differing in respect of ritual intention, sectarian affiliation and the visionary experience of the practitioner.

Tibetan Tantric texts describe many rites for a variety of spiritual and magical purposes.

Despite the literalness of Tantric texts and the explicitness of paintings and sculpture their symbolic interpretation prevailed in Tibet and it would be a serious misunderstanding to suppose otherwise.

According to rNying-ma-pa tradition, Padmasambhava hid numerous texts which were rediscovered when that sect, which claims spiritual descent from him, took shape.

India several times and is credited with religious foundations in the western Tibetan kingdom of Gu-ge as well as many translations of Buddhist texts, did much to revive Buddhism.

For their adherence to these apocryphal texts as well as for their veneration of Padmasambhava, the rNying-ma-pa are reproached by other sects.

Fortunately, Indian and Tibetan tradition have preserved many texts which describe and name gods either singly or disposed in groups according to a specific order for various ritual purposes.

These texts not only give us meditation processes by which gods were summoned out of their mystic syllables but minutely detail their postures, colours, clothing, ornaments and the objects they held in their hands.

Beyond these lay the complexities of Tantra and the mastery not merely of their texts but also the controlled visionary and psychological practices they inculcated.

Passages in Tantric texts can be read to mean that in the course of his practice the yogin carried the khatvanga when identifying himself with the central deity of the ritual.

These consist of cylinders containing tightly rolled texts or repeated invocations, usually blockprinted, which are revolved from right to left so that the texts, if visible, could be read.