Buddhist Tantricism/N.K. Singh. Delhi, Global Vision, 2004, viii, 238
p., ISBN 81-8220-004-0.
Buddhist Tantricism/N.K. Singh. Delhi, Global Vision, 2004, viii, 238
p., ISBN 81-8220-004-0.
Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Historical survey. 3. Tantric literature. 4. Sexual ambiguity. 5. Tantric alchemy. 6. Tantra in Tibetan Buddhism. 7. Buddhist Tantras and Jungian psychotherapy. 8. Phenomenological theory of Tantric meditation. Bibliography. Index.
"Main objective of this study is to frame a tantric image in the historical development of Buddhist theo-philosophy and its impact on Buddhist communities in India and other Buddhist countries. Here, I intend to recover the missing links in the history of tantric thoughts through an investigation of the theoretical and practical situations of two important texts which fall between the Tattvasamgraha-tantra and the Hevajra-tantra, that is, the Guhyasamaja-tantra, and the Sarvabuddha-samayogadakini-maya samvara-tantra. My investigation will centre upon the practice of svadhidaivatayoga (union with a specific deity of a mandala), which is assumed to be prevalent in the whole course of Tantric Buddhism." (jacket)