Dismantling the Nganjuk and Surocolo maṇḍalas: seeking Esoteric Buddhism through a Javanese bronze typology

• Main Author: Lua, Nicholas Swee Yang
• Other Authors: Goh Geok Yian
• Format: Thesis-Master by Research
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2023
• Subjects: Humanities::History::Asia::Indonesia; Humanities::Religions::Buddhism; Humanities::History::Asia::Southeastern Asia; Humanities::Language::Philology
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/171860
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This thesis investigates what bronze figural objects found in Java can tell us about Esoteric Buddhism, a form of transregional Buddhist thought and practice in which wrathful deities featured prominently, on the island. In particular, I ask whether two bronze hoards excavated in the 20th-century, t...