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Strotras, Dhāraṇīs, Tantras – 145 out to be Śākyamitra, he is probably the same as the person mentioned by Tāranātha as a contemporary of Devapāla of Bengal, about 850 A.D. and this period may well belong to the entire book. When Tāranātha says that during the period of the Pala dynasty in Bengal, that is from the seventh to the ninth century, Yoga and magic preponderated in Buddhism we may well credit him, and the rest of the Tantras may have arisen rather in this than in an earlier age. Tāranātha in his history of Buddhism in India gives us an adequate conception of Tantric Buddhism. Here indeed we have the mention of Mahāyāna and Tripiṭaka of Buddhistic science and Buddhistic self-sacrifice, but a much more prominent part is played by Siddhi or the supernatural power acquired through Tantras and Mantras. In the Catalogue of Buddhist Sanskrit MSS. in the Royal Asiatic Society by E. B. Cowell and J. Eggeling (Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1876, reprint p. 28) we find the mention of Pañcakrumopadeśa by Śrīghanta. The tantra literature has no popular [122] origin, but is “learned” in its way. La Vallée-Poussin (Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1899, p. 141 f.) is inclined to regard Tantra and Tantra-Buddhism as ancient. But no proofs have been adduced in support of this theory. (See Rapson, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1898, p. 909 ff.) Haraprasad Shastri (Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal, Proceedings 1900, p. 100 ff.) assigns the Tantra literature to the fifth or the sixth century. Tāranātha was born in 1573 and completed his history in 1608 which was written with Indian and Tibetan materials. He reports even in his time at page 189 ff. actual practising wizards. Barbarous like the contents of the Tantras, is as a rule also the Sanskrit in which it is written, and one would rather pass over this literature in silence
Strotras, Dhāraṇīs, Tantras – 146 were it not for the fact that it has been so widely spread in Northern India, Tibet and latterly in China that to it is attached great cultural and historical importance. Printed Tantra literature An anthology called Subhāṣitasaṁgraha published by Bendall (Le Museon, 1903, p. 275 ff.) contains extracts from the Madhyamika and the Tantra texts. Purely magical texts are the Sādhanas published by F. W. Thomas (idid p. 1 ff.). The manuscript catalogues give an idea of the great compass of Tantra literature in India. In Tibet the Tantras were the best means of amalgamating Buddhism with the analogous creed of wizards. The Tantras were imported into China in 1200. Some of the Sanskrit tantric MSS. discovered by A. O. Franke, are dealt with by F. Kielhorn, (Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1894, 835 ff). In Japan the Shin-gon sect is based on Tantra texts. (B. Nanjio, Short History of the Twelve Japanese Buddhist Sects.) On Tantras and the Tantra Buddhism in general, see Burnouf, Introduction p. 465 ff, 578 f.; Wassiljew Der Buddhismus, p. 201 ff., but especially La Vallée-Poussin Bouddhism, Etudes et Materiaux, pp. 72 ff., 130 ff., and Bouddhisme, pp. 343 ff., 368 ff. [Ed. note: the final chapter of Nariman’s work, entitled Beginnings of Indian Studies in Europe, being unrelated to this main body of the work, has been published separately on this website. One of the Appendixes, however, is closely related, and follows next.]
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