CONTENTS

Note on Transliteration vii Contents by Tradition xiii Contents by Country xv Contributors xvii

Introduction • David Gordon White 3

Gurus and Adepts

  1. The Tantric Guru • Andre Padoux 41 2. King Kunji’s Banquet • Matthew T. Kapstein 52 3. Interviews with a Tantric Kali Priest: Feeding Skulls in the Town of

Sacrifice • June McDaniel 72 4. A Parody of the Kapalikas in the Mattavilasa • David N. Lorenzen 81 5. A Trance Healing Session with Matajl • Kathleen M. Erndl 97

Kings and Priests

  1. The Consecration of the Monastic Compound at Mount Koya by Kukai • David L. Gardiner 119 7. Praises of the Drunken Peacocks • Richard H. Davis 131 8. Precepts for an Emperor • Allan G. Grapard 146

Devotees and Deities

  1. Raising Snakes in Bengal: The Use of Tantric Imagery in Sakta Poetry Contests • Rachel Fell McDermott 167 10. The Wedding of Siva and the Goddess in the Kulalikamnaya Teun Goudriaan 184

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  1. An Advertised Secret: The Goddess Taleju and the King of Kathmandu Bronwen Bledsoe 195 12. Tantric Rites in Antal’s Poetry • D. Dennis Hudson 206

Traditions in Transition and Conflict

  1. The Jain Monk Jinapati Suri Gets the Better of a Nath Yogi Paul Dundas 231 14. Longchenpa and the Possession of the Dakinis • David Germano and Janet Gyatso 239 15. The Anonymous Agama Prakasa: Preface to a Nineteenth-Century Gujarati Polemic . Robin Rinehart and Tony K. Stewart 266 16. Conversation between Guru Hasan Kabiruddin and Jogi Kanipha: Tantra Revisited by the Isma’ili Preachers • Dominique-Sila Khan 285

Tantric Paths

  1. Emptiness and Dust: Zen Dharma Transmission Rituals

• William Bodijord 299 18. The Necklace of Immortality: A Seventeenth-Century Vaisnava Sahajiya Text • Glen A. Hayes 308 19. The Tibetan Practice of the Mantra Path According to Lce-sgom-pa • Yael Bentor 326 20. The Ocean of the Heart: Selections from the Kularnava Tantra • Douglas Renfrew Brooks 347 21. Tantric Buddhism and Chinese Thought in East Asia

• Fahio Rambelli 361

Rites and Techniques

  1. Worship of the Ladies of the Dipper • Charles D. Orzech and James H. Sanford 383 23. The Great Wisdom Mother and the Good Tradition

• Giacomella Orofino 396 24. Worship of Bell-Ears the Great Hero, a Jain Tantric Deity • John E. Cort 417 25. Secret Yantras and Erotic Display for Hindu Temples

• Michael D. Robe 434 26. The Six Rites of Magic • Gudrun Buhnemann 447CONTENT S x i

  1. The Worship of Kali According to the Todala Tantra

• Sanjukta Gupta 463 28. Ritual Manual for the Protective Fire Offering Devoted to Manjusri, Chuin Lineage • Richard K. Payne 489 29. The Purification of the Body • Gavin Flood 509

Yoga and Meditation

  1. A Tantric Meditation on Emptiness • Donald S. Lopez, Jr. 523 31. Japanese Tantra, the Tachikawa-ryu, and Ryobu Shinto

• Bernard Faure 543 32. Assorted Topics of the Great Completeness by Dodrupchen III • Anne Carolyn Klein, Oral commentary by Khetsun Sangpo Rinpoche 557 33. On the Seal of Sambhu: A Poem by Abhinavagupta

• Paul E. Muller-Ortega 573 34. Vajrayoga in the Kalacakra Tantra • John Newman 587 35. Jain Tantra: Divinatory and Meditative Practices in the Twelfth

Century Yogasastra of Hemacandra • Olle Qvarnstrom 595 36. Cheating Death • Michael Walter 605

Glossary of Foreign Terms 625 Index 635