Mysticism, China, India, Japan, Religious Studies 

ntroduction: Tantra in practice: mapping a tradition / David Gordon White -- The Tantric guru / André Padoux -- King Kuñji's banquet / Matthew T. Kapstein -- Interviews with a Tantric Kālī priest: feeding skulls in the town of sacrifice / June McDaniel -- A parody of the Kāpālikas in the Mattavilāsa / David N. Lorenzen -- A trance healing session with Mātājī / Kathleen M. Erndl -- The consecration of the monastic compound at Mount Koya by Kūkai / David L. Gardiner -- Praises of the drunken peacocks / Richard H. Davis -- Precepts for an emperor / Allan G. Grapard -- Raising snakes in Bengal: the use of Tantric imagery in Śākta poetry contests / Rachel Fell McDermott -- The wedding of Śiva and the goddess in the Kulālikāmnāya / Teun Goudriaan -- An advertised secret: the goddess Taleju and the King of Kathmandu / Bronwen Bledsoe -- Tantric rites in Āṇṭāḷ's poetry / D. Dennis Hudson -- The Jain monk Jinapati Sūri gets the better of a Nāth Yogī / Paul Dundas -- Longchenpa and the possession of the Ḍākinīs / David Germano and Janet Gyatso -- The anonymous Āgama Prakāśa: preface to a nineteenth-century Gujarati polemic / Robin Rinehart and Tony K. Stewart -- Conversation between Guru Hasan Kabīruddīn and Jogī Kāniphā: Tantra revisited by the Ismaʻili preachers / Dominique-Sila Khan -- Emptiness and dust: Zen Dharma transmission rituals / William Bodiford -- The necklace of immortality: a seventeenth-century Vaiṣṇava Sahajiyā text / Glen A. Hayes -- The Tibetan practice of the mantra path according to Lce-sgom-pa / Yael Bentor -- The ocean of the heart: selections from the Kulārṇava Tantra / Douglas Renfrew Brooks -- Tantric Buddhism and Chinese thought in East Asia / Fabio Rambelli -- Worship of the Ladies of the Dipper / Charles D. Orzech and James H. Sanford -- The great wisdom mother and the Gcod tradition / Giacomella Orofino -- Worship of Bell-Ears the great hero, a Jain Tantric deity / John E. Cort -- Secret yantras and erotic display for Hindu temples / Michael D. Rabe -- The six rites of magic / Gudrun Bühnemann -- The worship of Kālī according to the Toḍala Tantra / Sanjukta Gupta -- Ritual manual for the protective fire offering devoted to Mañjuśrī, Chuin lineage / Richard K. Payne -- The purification of the body / Gavin Flood -- A Tantric meditation on emptiness / Donald S. Lopez, Jr. -- Japanese Tantra, the Tachikawa-ryū, and Ryōbu Shintō / Bernard Faure -- Assorted topics of the great completeness by Dodrupchen III / Anne Carolyn Klein ; oral commentary by Khetsun Sangpo Rinpoche -- On the seal of Śambhu: a poem by Abhinavagupta / Paul E. Muller-Ortega -- Vajrayoga in the Kālacakra Tantra / John Newman -- Jain Tantra: divinatory and meditative practices in the twelfth-century Yogaśāstra of Hemacandra / Olle Qvarnström -- Cheating death / Michael Walter. 

xviii, 640 pages ; 25 cm 

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