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Making sense of Tantric Buddhism : history, semiology, and transgression in the Indian traditions / Christian K. Wedemeyer.
Van Pelt Library BQ8912.9.I5 W43 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wedemeyer, Christian K.
- Series:
- South Asia across the disciplines
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tantric Buddhism--India.
- Tantric Buddhism.
- India.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 313 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2013]
- Contents:
- Part I Historiography
- 1 Origins, Religion, and the Origins of Tantrism 17
- Understanding Tantric Buddhism Through Its Origins 18
- The Quest for Origins as Method in the History of Religions 32
- 2 Narrating Tantric Buddhism 37
- The Poetics of Historiography 38
- Tantra as End: The Decline and Fall of Indian Buddhism 43
- Tantra as Beginning: The Primordial Undercurrent 51
- Tantra as Middle: Medieval Esotericism 58
- Historical Narrative and Ideological Implication 66
- 3 Going Native: Traditional Historiography of Tantric Buddhism 68
- Historiography and Cosmology in Exoteric Buddhism 71
- Historiography and Cosmology in Esoteric Buddhism 79
- Observations on Structure, Function, and Historiography 95
- Part II Interpretation
- 4 The Semiology of Transgression 105
- The Literal and the Figurative in Tantric Hermeneutics 107
- Connotative Semiotics as Exegetical Method 113
- Connotative Semiotics in Tantric Ritual 117
- Connotative Semiotics in Tantric Scripture 125
- 5 The Practice of Indian Tantric Buddhism 133
- Interpreting the Practice Observance I: Irony and Inversion 144
- Interpreting the Practice Observance II: Prerequisites and Temporal Frame 149
- Interpreting the Practice Observance III: Saiva Parallels 152
- 6 Tantric Buddhist Transgression in Context 170
- The Social Location of Esoteric Buddhism as an Interpretative Problem 171
- Contriving Marginality 173
- The Common Repertoire of Buddhist Professionals 175
- Carnivalesque or Rituals of Rebellion? 188
- But... Did They Really Do It?! 192.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780231162401
- 0231162405
- 9780231530958
- 0231530951
- OCLC:
- 777002274
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