CONTENTS BY TRADITION

Buddhist Tantra

  1. King Kunji’s Banquet

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

  3. Longchenpa and the Possession of the Dakinis

  4. Emptiness and Dust: Zen Dharma Transmission Rituals 19. The Tibetan Practice of the Mantra Path According to Lee-sgom-pa 21. Tantric Buddhism and Chinese Thought in East Asia 22. Worship of the Ladies of the Dipper

  5. The Great Wisdom Mother and the Good Tradition 28. Ritual Manual for the Protective Fire Offering Devoted to Manjusri, Chuin Lineage

  6. A Tantric Meditation on Emptiness

  7. Japanese Tantra, the Tachikawa-ryu, and Ryobu Shinto 32. Assorted Topics of the Great Completeness by Dodrupchen III 34. Vajrayoga in the Kalacakra Tantra

  8. Cheating Death

Hindu Tantra

  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 11. An Advertised Secret: The Goddess Taleju and the King of Kathmandu 12. Tantric Rites in Antal’s Poetry

  8. The Anonymous Agama Prakasa: “Preface to a Nineteenth-Century Gujarati Polemic

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

  2. The Ocean of the Heart: Selections from the Kularnava Tantra 25. Secret Yantras and Erotic Display for Hindu Temples

  3. The Six Rites of Magic

  4. The Worship of Kali According to the Todala Tantra

  5. The Purification of the Body

  6. On the Seal of Sambhu: A Poem by Abhinavagupta

Jain Tantra

  1. The Jain Monk Jinapati Suri Gets the Better of a Nath Yogi 24. Worship of Bell-Ears the Great Hero, a Jain Tantric Deity 35. Jain Tantra: Divinatory and Meditative Practices in the Twelfth Century Yogasastra of Hemacandra

Tantra and Islam in South Asia

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