Making sense of Tantric Buddhism : history, semiology, and transgression in the Indian traditions / Christian K. Wedemeyer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wedemeyer, Christian K.

Series:

South Asia across the disciplines

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tantric Buddhism--India.

Tantric Buddhism.

Religion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Christian K. Wedemeyer's systematic investigation into Buddhist Tantric traditions fundamentally rethinks the nature of its transgressive theories and practices and situates them firmly within larger trends in learned Indian culture. Challenging the notion that such phenomena are ?marginal" or primitive, Wedemeyer demonstrates these antinomian ?rituals of rebellion" were integrally related, ideologically and institutionally, both within the Buddhist mainstream and Indian culture.Revisiting various interpretations of esoteric Buddhism from the early-nineteenth century to the presen

Contents:

Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Preface and Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: Making Sense In and Of the Human Sciences; PART I: HISTORIOGRAPHY; 1. Origins, Religion, and the Origins of Tantrism; 2. Narrating Tantric Buddhism; 3. Going Native: Traditional Historiography of Tantric Buddhism; PART II: INTERPRETATION; 4. The Semiology of Transgression; 5. The Practice of Indian Tantric Buddhism; 6. Tantric Buddhist Transgression In Context; Conclusion: No Two ""Ways"" About It; APPENDIX I: The Indrabhuti Story According to Pad Ma Dkar PO (Ca. 1575)

APPENDIX II: Chapter Nine of the Buddhakapala Tantra, the ""Practice"" (Caryapatala)Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780231530958

0231530951

OCLC:

820631953