Śaivism and the tantric traditions : essays in honour of Alexis G.J.S. Sanderson

Academic Study Of The Tantric Traditions Has Blossomed In Recent Decades, In No Small Measure Thanks To The Magisterial Contributions Of Alexis G.j.s. Sanderson, Until 2015 Spalding Professor Of Eastern Religions And Ethics At Oxford University. This Collection Of Essays Honours Him And Touches Several Fields Of Indology That He Has Helped To Shape (or, In The Case Of The Śaiva Religions, Revolutionised): The History, Ritual, And Philosophies Of Tantric Buddhism, Śaivism And Vaiṣṇavism; Religious Art And Architecture; And Sanskrit Belles Lettres. Grateful Former Students, Joined By Other Experts Influenced By His Scholarship, Here Offer Papers That Make Significant Contributions To Our Understanding Of The Cultural, Religious, Political, And Intellectual Histories Of Premodern South And Southeast Asia. Contributors Are: Peter Bisschop, Judit Törzsök, Alex Watson, Isabelle Ratié, Christopher Wallis, Péter-dániel Szántó, Srilata Raman, Csaba Dezső, Gergely Hidas, Nina Mirnig, John Nemec, Bihani Sarkar, Jürgen Hanneder, Diwakar Acharya, James Mallinson, Csaba Kiss, Jason Birch, Elizabeth Mills, Ryugen Tanemura, Anthony Tribe, And Parul Dave-mukherji-- ‎Contents ‎Preface ‎List of Figures and Tables ‎Notes on Contributors ‎A Note on Alexis Sanderson and Indology (Goodall and Isaacson) ‎Bibliography of the Published Works of Alexis G.J.S. Sanderson (1983–2019) ‎Introduction (Goodall, Hatley, Isaacson and Raman) ‎Part 1. Early Śaivism ‎Chapter 1. From Mantramārga Back to Atimārga: Atimārga as a Self-referential Term (Bisschop) ‎Chapter 2. Why Are the Skull-Bearers (Kāpālikas) Called Soma? (Törzsök) ‎Chapter 3. Dressing for Power: On vrata, caryā, and vidyāvrata in the Early Mantramārga, and on the Structure of the Guhyasūtra of the Niśvāsatattvasaṃhitā (Goodall) ‎Part 2. Exegetical and Philosophical Traditions ‎Chapter 4. Further Thoughts on Rāmakaṇṭha’s Relationship to Earlier Positions in the Buddhist-Brāhmaṇical Ātman Debate (Watson) ‎Chapter 5. Some Hitherto Unknown Fragments of Utpaladeva’s Vivṛti (II): Against the Existence of External Objects (Ratié) ‎Chapter 6. Alchemical Metaphors for Spiritual Transformation in Abhinavagupta’s Īśvarapratyabhijñāvimarśinī and Īśvarapratyabhijñāvivṛtivimarśinī (Wallis) ‎Chapter 7. On Vāgīśvarakīrti’s Influence in Kashmir and among the Khmer (Szántó) ‎Chapter 8. Reflections on the King of Ascetics (Yatirāja): Rāmānuja in the Devotional Poetry of Vedānta Deśika (Raman) ‎Part 3. Religion, the State, and Social History ‎Chapter 9. Not to Worry, Vasiṣṭha Will Sort It Out: The Role of the Purohita in the Raghuvaṃśa (Dezső) ‎Chapter 10. Buddhism, Kingship and the Protection of the State: The Suvarṇaprabhāsottamasūtra and Dhāraṇī Literature (Hidas) ‎Chapter 11. Adapting Śaiva Tantric Initiation for Exoteric Circles: The Lokadharmiṇī Dīkṣā and Its History in Early Medieval Sources (Mirnig) ‎Chapter 12. Innovation and Social Change in the Vale of Kashmir, circa 900–1250C.E. (Nemec) ‎Chapter 13. Toward a History of the Navarātra, the Autumnal Festival of the Goddess (Sarkar) ‎Part 4. Mantra, Ritual, and Yoga ‎Chapter 14. Śārikā’s Mantra (Hanneder) ‎Chapter 15. The Kāmasiddhistuti of King Vatsarāja (Acharya) ‎Chapter 16. The Lotus Garland (padmamālā) and Cord of Power (śaktitantu): The Brahmayāmala’s Integration of Inner and Outer Ritual (Hatley) ‎Chapter 17. The Amṛtasiddhi: Haṭhayoga’s Tantric Buddhist Source Text (Mallinson) ‎Chapter 18. A Sexual Ritual with Māyā in Matsyendrasaṃhitā 40 (Kiss) ‎Chapter 19. Haṭhayoga’s Floruit on the Eve of Colonialism (Birch) ‎Part 5. Art and Architecture ‎Chapter 20. The Early Śaiva Maṭha: Form and Function (Mills) ‎Chapter 21. The Kriyāsaṃgrahapañjikā of Kuladatta and its Parallels in the Śaiva Pratiṣṭhātantras (Tanemura) ‎Chapter 22. Mañjuśrī as Ādibuddha: The Identity of an Eight-armed Form of Mañjuśrī Found in Early Western Himalayan Buddhist Art in the Light of Three Nāmasaṃgīti-Related Texts (Tribe) ‎Chapter 23. Life and Afterlife of Sādṛśya: Revisiting the Citrasūtra through the Nationalism-Naturalism Debate in Indian Art History (Dave-Mukherji) ‎Index "Academic study of the tantric traditions has blossomed in recent decades, in no small measure thanks to the magisterial contributions of Alexis G.J.S. Sanderson, until 2015 Spalding Professor of Eastern Religions and Ethics at Oxford University. This collection of essays honours him and touches several fields of Indology that he has helped to shape (or, in the case of the Śaiva religions, revolutionised): the history, ritual, and philosophies of tantric Buddhism, Śaivism and Vaiṣṇavism; religious art and architecture; and Sanskrit belles lettres. Grateful former students, joined by other experts influenced by his scholarship, here offer papers that make significant contributions to our understanding of the cultural, religious, political, and intellectual histories of premodern South and Southeast Asia. Contributors are: Peter Bisschop, Judit Törzsök, Alex Watson, Isabelle Ratié, Christopher Wallis, Péter-Dániel Szántó, Srilata Raman, Csaba Dezső, Gergely Hidas, Nina Mirnig, John Nemec, Bihani Sarkar, Jürgen Hanneder, Diwakar Acharya, James Mallinson, Csaba Kiss, Jason Birch, Elizabeth Mills, Ryugen Tanemura, Anthony Tribe, and Parul Dave-Mukherji"-- Provided by publisher Academic study of the tantric traditions has blossomed in recent decades, in no small measure thanks to the magisterial contributions of Alexis G.J.S. Sanderson, until 2015 Spalding Professor of Eastern Religions and Ethics at Oxford University. This collection of essays honours him and touches several 􀀄􀀅elds of Indology that he has helped to shape (or, in the case of Śaivism, revolutionised): the history, ritual, and philosophies of tantric Buddhism, Śaivism and Vaiṣṇavism; religious art and architecture; and Sanskrit belles lettres. Former students and other experts in􀀆􀀇uenced by his scholarship here o􀀈fer papers that contribute signi􀀄􀀅cantly to our understanding of the cultural, religious, and intellectual histories of premodern South and Southeast Asia. Readership: Anyone interested in Asia’s tantric traditions, philosophy and religion in premodern India, Sanskrit, and Indology. The book will be essential reading to specialists and advanced students of Śaivism and Tantric Buddhism. This book is a collection of essays in honour of Alexis G. J. S. Sanderson, a pioneering Indologist and historian of religion. The essays shed new light on the tantric traditions, religious art and architecture, and Sanskrit belles lettres.