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| ISBN13: | 9780197549889 |
| ISBN10: | 0197549888 |
| Binding: | Hardback |
| No. of pages: | 1272 pages |
| Size: | 249x184x66 mm |
| Weight: | 2127 g |
| Language: | English |
| 700 |
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The Oxford Handbook of Tantric Studies
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Publisher: OUP USA
Date of Publication: 30 January 2025
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Short description:
Since the earliest encounters between tantric traditions and Western scholars, the representation of tantra has typically emphasizd the antinomian, decadent aspects, which created a one-dimensional understanding, and hampered the study of the field. The Oxford Handbook of Tantric Studies is intended to overcome these obstacles, with a topical framework that covers the major topics in the field, including the concept of action (rituals, meditation, chanting, and pilgrimage) transformation, embodiment, "extraordinary" beings, art, literature, social organizations, and history. With a global pool of contributors, and over 40 chapters, the Handbook aims to provide the definitive reference work in this dynamic field.
Long description:
Since the earliest encounters between tantric traditions and Western scholars of religion, tantra has posed a challenge. The representation of tantra, whether in Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Tibet, or Japan, has tended to emphasize the antinomian, decadent aspects, which, as attention-grabbing as they were for audiences in the West, created a one-dimensional understanding, and hampered the academic study of the field for more than a century. Additionally, the Western perspective on religion has been dominated by doctrinal studies. As a result, sectarian boundaries between different tantric traditions are frequently replicated in the scholarship, and research tends to be sequestered according to different schools of South Asian, Central Asian, Southeast Asian, and East Asian tantric traditions.
The Oxford Handbook of Tantric Studies is intended to overcome these obstacles, facilitating collaboration between scholars working on different forms of tantra. The Introduction provides an overview of major issues confronting the field today, including debates regarding the definition and category of "tantra" historical origins, recent developments in gender studies and tantra, ethnography and "lived tantra" and cognitive approaches to tantra. Using a topical framework, the opening section explores the concept of action, one of the most prominent features of tantra, which includes performing rituals, practicing meditation, chanting, embarking on a pilgrimage, or re-enacting moments from a sacred text. From there, the sections cover broad topics such as transformation, gender and embodiment, "extraordinary" beings (such as deities and saints), art and visual expressions, language and literature, social organizations, and the history and historiography of tantra. With co-editors in chief who specialize in the Hindu and Buddhist perspectives, a global pool of contributors, and over 40 chapters, the Handbook aims to provide the definitive reference work in this dynamic field.
The Oxford Handbook of Tantric Studies is intended to overcome these obstacles, facilitating collaboration between scholars working on different forms of tantra. The Introduction provides an overview of major issues confronting the field today, including debates regarding the definition and category of "tantra" historical origins, recent developments in gender studies and tantra, ethnography and "lived tantra" and cognitive approaches to tantra. Using a topical framework, the opening section explores the concept of action, one of the most prominent features of tantra, which includes performing rituals, practicing meditation, chanting, embarking on a pilgrimage, or re-enacting moments from a sacred text. From there, the sections cover broad topics such as transformation, gender and embodiment, "extraordinary" beings (such as deities and saints), art and visual expressions, language and literature, social organizations, and the history and historiography of tantra. With co-editors in chief who specialize in the Hindu and Buddhist perspectives, a global pool of contributors, and over 40 chapters, the Handbook aims to provide the definitive reference work in this dynamic field.
Table of Contents:
1. Tantric Studies: Scholarly Issues, Methodologies, and Collaborations
Richard K. Payne and Glen A. Hayes
Part I. Action
2. Initiation (Abhi?eka) in Indian Buddhism
Ronald M. Davidson
3. The Inner and Outer Worship: The Rhythms of Domestic and Temple Practice in Nep?l? Tantra
Jeffrey S. Lidke and L. S. Akshunna
4. On the Union of Emptiness and Bliss: Buddhist Thought and Tantric Practice
Paul Donnelly
5. Gory? Shint? Goma: Tantric Foundations
Richard K. Payne
6. Homa in Jain Traditions.
Ellen Gough
7. The Neuroscience of Tantric Practice
Geoffrey Samuel and Maria Kozhevnikov
Part II. Transformations: Soteriology, Astrology, Alchemy, and Healing
8. Cosmic Process, Philosophy, and Soteriology in the Works of Abhinavagupta
Sthaneshwar Timalsina
9. Esoteric Physiology and Subtle Body Systems
Glen A. Hayes
10. Transforming the Body by Mastering the Elements, Some Tantric Sources
Lubomír Ondračka
11. Cosmology and Embryology in Medieval Japan
Anna Andreeva
12. Astrology and Astral Magic in Tantric Japan
Jeffrey Kotyk
13. Tantric Dimensions of Alchemy
Patricia Sauthoff
Part III. Gender, Cosmogony, Embodiment and Power
14. Śr?vidy? and Goddess Traditions: A Critical Historiographic Essay
Anna A. Golovkova
15. The ??kin? in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism
Judith Simmer-Brown
16. Three Shades of Tantric Yoga: Chapter 20 of the Netra Tantra
David Gordon White
17. Generative Buddhahood: Enlightened Plants and Trees in Japanese Tendai Esoteric Buddhism
Matthew McMullen
18. Embodiment and Subjugation: Exoteric-Esoteric Buddhist Practice in Medieval Japan
Eric Haruki Swanson
Part IV. Extraordinary Beings: Deities and Founders
19. ?Hard-Core? Tantric Traditions and the Cult of Bhairava in Java
Andrea Acri
20. Timeless Symbolism: An Early Dzogchen Patriarch's Hagiography and Scriptures
Georgios T. Halkias
21. The Twin Miracle: The Two-Headed Aizen My?? [Ry?zu Aizen] in Exorcistic Shugend? Practice at the Japanese Tantric Buddhist Complex of K?yasan
Elizabeth Noelle Tinsley
22. A Dharma Protector in a Transcultural Tantric Buddhist Context
Vesna A. Wallace
23. The Goddesses of Jaina Tantra
Michael Slouber
Part V. Imagery: Art History and Visual Expressions
24. The Tantric Temple: Rule-Bound Beauty
Libbie Mills
25. Mandalas and Landscape in Maritime Asia
Peter Sharrock
26. Mandalas and Monarchs: Tantra and Temple Architecture in Buddhist Southeast Asia
Swati Chemburkar
27. Jain Tantric Diagrams of the Goddess Padm?vat?
Ellen Gough
28. Imagery in Tantric Buddhism
David L. Gardiner
29. Attention, Memory, and the Imagination: A Cognitive Analysis of Tantric Visualization
Sthaneshwar Timalsina
Part VI. Language, Literature, Words, and Metaphor
30. Exploring Metaphors and Conceptual Blending in Vai??ava Sahajiy? Texts
Glen A. Hayes
31. Cosmogenesis and Phonematic Emanation
Ben Williams
32. Jain Tantra: An Overview
Christopher Key Chapple
33. Tibetan Tantric Buddhist Literature
Paul Hackett
34. The Cakrasa?vara Tantra
David B. Gray
Part VII. Social Organization and Institutions
35. What the K?lamukhas Can Tell Us about Identity, Institutions, and Community in the Early Medieval Deccan
Jason Schwartz
36. The Total Revelation Tantra: The Geopolitical Origins and Significance of the Name, Nep?l? Sarv?mn?ya Tantra
Jeffrey S. Lidke and L. S. Akshunna
37. The Soteriologies of Buddhist Tantrism
Iain Sinclair
38. Singing Tantra: Aural Media and Sonic Soteriology in Bengali Esoteric Lineages
Carola Erika Lorea
39. From the Fringes to Center Stage: Hij??s and Fertility Rituals in K?m?khy?
Sravana Borkataky-Varma
Part VIII. History and Historiography: Events, Memory, and Recollection
40. Śaiva Tantra: Toward a History
Dominic Goodall
41. On the Chronology of the Buddhist Tantras
Tsunehiko Sugiki
42. Som?nanda's Śivad???i as an Argument against Dharmak?rti
John Nemec
43. Dynamic Manifestations of Eternal Divinity: Late Nondual Śaivism on the Emanation and Contemplative Reabsorption of Time
David Peter Lawrence
44. Buddhist Magic and Vajray?na
Sam van Schaik
45. Modernity and Neo-Tantra
Hugh B. Urban
Richard K. Payne and Glen A. Hayes
Part I. Action
2. Initiation (Abhi?eka) in Indian Buddhism
Ronald M. Davidson
3. The Inner and Outer Worship: The Rhythms of Domestic and Temple Practice in Nep?l? Tantra
Jeffrey S. Lidke and L. S. Akshunna
4. On the Union of Emptiness and Bliss: Buddhist Thought and Tantric Practice
Paul Donnelly
5. Gory? Shint? Goma: Tantric Foundations
Richard K. Payne
6. Homa in Jain Traditions.
Ellen Gough
7. The Neuroscience of Tantric Practice
Geoffrey Samuel and Maria Kozhevnikov
Part II. Transformations: Soteriology, Astrology, Alchemy, and Healing
8. Cosmic Process, Philosophy, and Soteriology in the Works of Abhinavagupta
Sthaneshwar Timalsina
9. Esoteric Physiology and Subtle Body Systems
Glen A. Hayes
10. Transforming the Body by Mastering the Elements, Some Tantric Sources
Lubomír Ondračka
11. Cosmology and Embryology in Medieval Japan
Anna Andreeva
12. Astrology and Astral Magic in Tantric Japan
Jeffrey Kotyk
13. Tantric Dimensions of Alchemy
Patricia Sauthoff
Part III. Gender, Cosmogony, Embodiment and Power
14. Śr?vidy? and Goddess Traditions: A Critical Historiographic Essay
Anna A. Golovkova
15. The ??kin? in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism
Judith Simmer-Brown
16. Three Shades of Tantric Yoga: Chapter 20 of the Netra Tantra
David Gordon White
17. Generative Buddhahood: Enlightened Plants and Trees in Japanese Tendai Esoteric Buddhism
Matthew McMullen
18. Embodiment and Subjugation: Exoteric-Esoteric Buddhist Practice in Medieval Japan
Eric Haruki Swanson
Part IV. Extraordinary Beings: Deities and Founders
19. ?Hard-Core? Tantric Traditions and the Cult of Bhairava in Java
Andrea Acri
20. Timeless Symbolism: An Early Dzogchen Patriarch's Hagiography and Scriptures
Georgios T. Halkias
21. The Twin Miracle: The Two-Headed Aizen My?? [Ry?zu Aizen] in Exorcistic Shugend? Practice at the Japanese Tantric Buddhist Complex of K?yasan
Elizabeth Noelle Tinsley
22. A Dharma Protector in a Transcultural Tantric Buddhist Context
Vesna A. Wallace
23. The Goddesses of Jaina Tantra
Michael Slouber
Part V. Imagery: Art History and Visual Expressions
24. The Tantric Temple: Rule-Bound Beauty
Libbie Mills
25. Mandalas and Landscape in Maritime Asia
Peter Sharrock
26. Mandalas and Monarchs: Tantra and Temple Architecture in Buddhist Southeast Asia
Swati Chemburkar
27. Jain Tantric Diagrams of the Goddess Padm?vat?
Ellen Gough
28. Imagery in Tantric Buddhism
David L. Gardiner
29. Attention, Memory, and the Imagination: A Cognitive Analysis of Tantric Visualization
Sthaneshwar Timalsina
Part VI. Language, Literature, Words, and Metaphor
30. Exploring Metaphors and Conceptual Blending in Vai??ava Sahajiy? Texts
Glen A. Hayes
31. Cosmogenesis and Phonematic Emanation
Ben Williams
32. Jain Tantra: An Overview
Christopher Key Chapple
33. Tibetan Tantric Buddhist Literature
Paul Hackett
34. The Cakrasa?vara Tantra
David B. Gray
Part VII. Social Organization and Institutions
35. What the K?lamukhas Can Tell Us about Identity, Institutions, and Community in the Early Medieval Deccan
Jason Schwartz
36. The Total Revelation Tantra: The Geopolitical Origins and Significance of the Name, Nep?l? Sarv?mn?ya Tantra
Jeffrey S. Lidke and L. S. Akshunna
37. The Soteriologies of Buddhist Tantrism
Iain Sinclair
38. Singing Tantra: Aural Media and Sonic Soteriology in Bengali Esoteric Lineages
Carola Erika Lorea
39. From the Fringes to Center Stage: Hij??s and Fertility Rituals in K?m?khy?
Sravana Borkataky-Varma
Part VIII. History and Historiography: Events, Memory, and Recollection
40. Śaiva Tantra: Toward a History
Dominic Goodall
41. On the Chronology of the Buddhist Tantras
Tsunehiko Sugiki
42. Som?nanda's Śivad???i as an Argument against Dharmak?rti
John Nemec
43. Dynamic Manifestations of Eternal Divinity: Late Nondual Śaivism on the Emanation and Contemplative Reabsorption of Time
David Peter Lawrence
44. Buddhist Magic and Vajray?na
Sam van Schaik
45. Modernity and Neo-Tantra
Hugh B. Urban