01 Contents

*Preface *

*Acknowledgments *

*Contributors *

Introduction

Richard K. Payne

SYMBOLIC AND COMPARATIVE STUDIES

The Ritual Interplay of Fire and Water in Hindu and Buddhist Tantras

Holly Grether

Buddhist Permutations and Symbolism of Fire

Tadeusz Skorupski

The Structure of Japanese Buddhist Homa

Musashi Tachikawa

TEXTUAL STUDIES

The Vedic Homa and the Standardization of Hindu Pūjā

Timothy Lubin

Oblation, Non-conception, and Body: Systems of Psychosomatic Fire Oblation in Esoteric Buddhism in Medieval South Asia

Tsunehiko Sugiki

The Three Types of Fire Sacrifice According to Kāṇha’s Śrīcakrasaṃvara-homavidhi

David B. Gray

Fire Rituals by the Queen of Siddhas: The Aparimitāyur-homa-vidhi-nāma in the Tengyur

Georgios T. Halkias

Homa Rituals in the Indian Kālacakra-tantra Tradition

Vesna A. Wallace

Ritual Subjects: Homa in Chinese Translations and Manuals from the Sixth through Eighth Centuries

Charles D. Orzech

DESCRIPTIVE STUDIES

Newar Buddhist Homa Ritual Traditions

Todd Lewis and Naresh Bajrachrya

The Navarātra Homa: Liver, Enchantment, and Engendering the Divine Śaktis

Nawaraj Chaulagain

Fire on the Mountain: The Shugendō Saitō Goma

Richard K. Payne

Agnihotra Rituals in Nepal

Michael Witzel

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