Tantra
: In Practice/edited by David Gordon White. Reprint. First Published in
2000, U.K. Delhi, Motilal Banarsidass, 2001, xviii, 640 p., $28. ISBN 81-208-1778-8.Tantra
: In Practice/edited by David Gordon White. Reprint. First Published in
2000, U.K. Delhi, Motilal Banarsidass, 2001, xviii, 640 p., $28. ISBN 81-208-1778-8.
Contents: Preface. Introduction/David Gordon White. I. Gurus and adepts: 1. The Tantric Guru/Andre Padoux. 2. King Kunji’s banquet/Matthew T. Kapstein. 3. Interviews with a Tantric kali priest: feeding Skulls in the town of sacrifice/June McDaniel. 4. A parody of the Kapalikas in the Mattavilasa/David N. Lorenzen. 5. A trance healing session with Mataji/Kathleen M. Erndl. II. Kings and priests: 6. The consecration of the monastic compound at mount Koya by Kukai/David L. Gardiner. 7. Praises of the Drunken peacocks/Richard H. Davis. 8. Precepts for an emperor/Allan G. Grapard. III. Devotees and deities: 9. Raising snakes in Bengal : the use of Tantric imagery in Sakta poetry contests/Rachel Fell McDermott. 10. The wedding of Siva and the Goddess in the Kulalikamnaya/Teun Goudriaan. 11. An advertised secret : the Goddess Taleju and the King of Kathmandu/Bronwen Bledsoe. 12. Tantric rites in Antal’s poetry/D. Dennis Hudson. IV. Traditions in transition and conflict: 13. The jain monk Jinapati Suri gets the better of a nath yogi/Paul Dundas. 14. Longchenpa and the possession of the Dakinis/David Germano and Janet Gyatso. 15. The anonymous Agama Prakasa : preface to a nineteenth-century Gujarati polemic/Robin Rinehart and Tony K. Stewart. 16. Conversation between Guru Hasan Kabiruddin and Jogi Kanipha : Tantra revisited by the Isma ‘ili preachers/Dominique-Sila Khan. V. Tantric paths: 17. Emptiness and dust: zen dharma transmission rituals/William Bodiford. 18. The Necklace of immortality: a seventeenth-century Vaisnava Sahajiya text/Glen A. Hayes. 19. The Tibetan practice of the Mantra path according to Lce-sgom-pa/Yael Bentor. 20. The ocean of the heart: selections from the Kularnava Tantra/Douglas Renfrew Brooks. 21. Tantric Buddhism and Chinese thought in East Asia/Fabio Rambelli. VI. Rites and techniques: 22. Worship of the ladies of the dipper/Charles D. Orzech and James H. Sanford. 23. The great wisdom mother and the good tradition/Giacomella Orofino. 24. Worship of bell-ears the great hero, a Jain Tantric deity/John E. Cort. 25. Secret Yantras and erotic display for Hindu temples/Michael D. Rabe. 26. The six rites of magic/Gudrun Buhnemann. 27. The worship of kali according to the Todala Tantra/Sanjukta Gupta. 28. Ritual manual for the protective fire offering devoted to Manjusri Chuin lineage/Richard K. Payne. 29. The purification of the body/Gavin Flood. VII. Yoga and meditation: 30. A Tantric meditation on emptiness/Donald S. Lopez. 31. Japanese Tantra, the Tachikawa-ryu, and Ryobu Shinto/Bernard Faure. 32. Assorted topics of the great completeness by Dodrupchen III/Anne Carolyn Klein, Oral commentary by Khetsun Sangpo Rinpoche. 33. On the seal of Sambhu : a poem by Abhinavagupta/Paul E. Muller-Ortega. 34. Vajrayoga in the Kalacakra Tantra/John Newman. 35. Jain Tantra: divinatory and meditative practices in the twelfth century Yogasastra of Hemacandra/Olle Qvarnstrom. 36. Cheating death/Michael Walter. Glossary of foreign terms. Index. No. 21768