Siddham, an Essay on the History of Sanskrit Studies in China and Japan [1 ed.]

The survey presented here, brief though it be, will yet suffice to support the author's main argument; viz. that wh

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The Siddham script owed its popularity in China and Japan especially to the rise of the Mantrayana, the esoteric School

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