Wind, Waters, Stupas, Mandalas: Fetal Buddhahood in Shingon
Buddhist medical theory often describes the early stages of human gestation in terms of five one-week long stages. Certain Shingon texts take this theory and make of it a spiritual motif in which these five weeks, and by extension the whole term of human gestation, is construed of as a privileged pe...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Nanzan Institute
[1997]
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Japanese journal of religious studies
Year: 1997, Volume: 24, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 1-38 |
| Further subjects: | B
Pregnancy
B Wisdom B Buddhism B Religious Studies B Stupas B Religious rituals B Fetus B Birth B Mandalas |
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