Tantric communities in context / Nina Mirnig, Marion Rastelli, and Vincent Eltschinger (eds.).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mirnig, Nina, 1982- editor.

Rastelli, Marion, editor.

Eltschinger, Vincent, editor.

Series:

Beiträge zur Kultur- und Geistesgeschichte Asiens ; Nr. 99.

Sitzungsberichte (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-Historische Klasse) ; 899. Bd.

Sitzungsberichte, 0029-8832 ; 899. Band

Beiträge zur Kultur- und Geistesgeschichte Asiens ; Nr. 99

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tantric Buddhism.

Śaivism.

Physical Description:

xviii, 602 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Wien : Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, [2019]

Contents:

How public was Śaivism? / Alexis Sanderson

Sisters and consorts, adepts and goddesses : representations of women in the Brahmayāmala / Shaman Hatley

The Bhasmāṅkura in Śaiva texts / Csaba Kiss

Renegotiating ritual identities : blurred boundaries between Pāñcarātra ritual communities in South India / Robert Leach

*Sahajavajra's integration of Tantra into mainstream Buddhism : an analysis of his *Tattvadaśakaṭīkā and *Sthitisamāsa / Klaus-Dieter Mathes

Bāṇa's literary representation of a South Indian Śaivite / Christian Ferstl

Whose dharma? Śaiva and Śākta community rules and Dharmaśāstric prescriptions / Judit Törzsök

Tantric ritual components in the initiation of a Digambara Jain / Ellen Gough

Minor Vajrayāna texts V : the Gaṇacakravidhi attributed to Ratnākaraśānti / Péter-Dániel Szántó

The recipient of the Tantric Buddhist funeral / Ryugen Tanemura

Narratives as a medium for appealing to the royal court : a look into the Ahirbudhnyasaṃhitā / Marion Rastelli

In case of emergency : addressing rulers in the Ahirbudhnyasaṃhitā / Francesco Bianchini

Damanotsava : on love in spring, on what Jñānaśambhu wrote, and on the spread of public festivals into the Mantramārga / Dominic Goodall

Hanumān worship under the kings of the late Malla period in Nepal / Gudrun Bühnemann

"Rudras on earth" on the eve of the Tantric age : the Śivadharmaśāstra and the making of Śaiva lay and initiatory communities / Nina Mirnig

Inclusivism revisited : the worship of other gods in the Śivadharmaśāstra, the Skandapurāṇa, and the Niśvāsamukha / Peter Bisschop

Mātṛtantra texts of South India with special reference to the worship of Rurujit in Kerala and to three different communities associated with this worship / S.A.S. Sarma

Further Mahāpratisarā fragments from Gilgit / Gergely Hidas.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783700183785

370018378X

OCLC:

1137048844

Publisher Number:

9783700183785