CONTENTS BY COUNTRY

China

  1. Tantric Buddhism and Chinese Thought in East Asia 22. Worship of the Ladies of the Dipper

India

  1. The Tantric Guru

  2. Interviews with a Tantric Kali Priest: Feeding Skulls in the Town of Sacrifice

  3. A Parody of the Kapalikas in the Mattavilasa

  4. A Trance Healing Session with Mataji

  5. Praises of the Drunken Peacocks

  6. Raising Snakes in Bengal: The Use of Tantric Imagery in Sakta Poetry Contests

  7. The Wedding of Siva and the Goddess in the Kulalikamnaya 12. Tantric Rites in Antal’s Poetry

  8. The Jain Monk Jinapati Suri Gets the Better of a Nath Yogi 15. The Anonymous Agama Prakasa: Preface to a Nineteenth-Century Gujarati Polemic

  9. Conversation between Guru Hasan Kabiruddin and Jogi Kanipha: Tantra Revisited by the Isma’ili Preachers

  10. The Necklace of Immortality: A Seventeenth-Century Vaisnava Sahajiya Text

  11. The Ocean of the Heart: Selections from the Kularnava Tantra 24. Worship of Bell-Ears the Great Hero, a Jain Tantric Deity 25. Secret Yantras and Erotic Display for Hindu Temples 26. The Six Rites of Magic

  12. The Worship of Kali According to the Todala Tantra 29. The Purification of the Body

  13. On the Seal of Sambhu: A Poem by Abhinavagupta 35. Jain Tantra: Divinatory and Meditative Practices in the Twelfth Century Yogasastra of Hemacandra

XVI CONTENT S BY COUNTR Y Japan

  1. The Consecration of the Monastic Compound at Mount Koya by Kukai 8. Precepts for an Emperor

  2. Emptiness and Dust: Zen Dharma Transmission Rituals

  3. Ritual Manual for the Protective Fire Offering Devoted to Manjusri, Chuin Lineage

  4. Japanese Tantra, the Tachikawa-ryu, and Ryobu Shinto

Nepal

  1. An Advertised Secret: The Goddess Taleju and the King of Kathmandu

Tibet

  1. King Kunji’s Banquet

  2. Longchenpa and the Possession of the Dakinis

  3. The Tibetan Practice of the Mantra Path According to Lee-sgom-pa 23. The Great Wisdom Mother and the Good Tradition

  4. A Tantric Meditation on Emptiness

  5. Assorted Topics of the Great Completeness by Dodrupchen III 34. Vajrayoga in the Kalacakra Tantra

  6. Cheating Death

CONTRIBUTORS

Yael Bentor teaches in the Department of Indian Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Bronwen Bledsoe is a graduate student in the Department of South Asian Studies at the University of Chicago.

William Bodiford teaches in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cul tures at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Douglas Renfrew Brooks teaches in the Department of Religion and Classics at University of Rochester.

Gudrun Buhnemann teaches in the Department of South Asian Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

John E. Cort teaches in the Department of Religion at Denison University. Richard H. Davis teaches in the Department of Religion at Bard College. Paul Dundas teaches in the Department of Sanskrit at the University of Edinburgh.

Kathleen M. Erndl teaches in the Department of Religion at Florida State University.

Bernard Faure teaches in the Department of Religion at Stanford University. Gavin Flood teaches in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Wales, Lampeter.

David L. Gardiner teaches in the Department of Religion at Colorado College. David Germano teaches in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia.

Teun Goudriaan is Professor Emeritus at the University of Utrecht. Allan G. Grapard teaches in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Sanjukta Gupta teaches in the Faculty of Oriental Studies, Oxford University. Janet Gyatso teaches in the Department of Religion at Amherst College. Glen A. Hayes teaches in the Department of Religious Studies at Bloomfield College.

D. Dennis Hudson teaches in the Department of Religion at Smith College. Matthew T. Kapstein teaches in the Department of South Asian Studies at the University of Chicago.

Dominique-Sila Khan is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Rajasthan Studies, Jaipur, India.

Anne Carolyn Klein teaches in the Department of Religious Studies at Rice University.

XVii i CONTRIBUTOR S

Donald S. Lopez, Jr. teaches in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Michigan.

David N. Lorenzen teaches in the Centro de Estudios de Asia y Africa at El Colegio de Mexico.

June McDaniel teaches in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at the College of Charleston.

Rachel Fell McDermott teaches in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures at Barnard College.

Paul E. Muller-Ortega teaches in the Department of Religion and Classics at the University of Rochester.

John Newman teaches in the Division of the Humanities at the New College of the University of South Florida.

Giacomella Orofino teaches at the Istituto Universitario Orientale, Naples. Charles D. Orzech teaches in the Department of Religious Studies at the Uni versity of North Carolina, Greensboro.

Andre Padoux is a Directeur de Recherche at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris.

Richard K. Payne is Director of the Institute of Buddhist Studies, San Francisco. Olle Qvarnstrom teaches in the Department of Theological and Religious Studies at Lund University.

Michael D. Rabe teaches in the Art Department of Saint Xavier University, Chicago.

Fabio Rambelli teaches in the Department of Culture Studies at Sapporo University.

Robin Rinehart teaches in the Department of Religion at Lafayette College. James H. Sanford teaches in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Tony K. Stewart teaches in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at North Carolina State University.

Michael Walter is a Research Fellow at the Lumbini Research Center, Lumbini, Nepal.

David Gordon White teaches in the Department of Religious Studies at the Uni versity of California, Santa Barbara.

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