Electronic Publication/s Nina Mirnig - Marion Rastelli - Vincent Eltschinger Tantric Communities in Context Beiträge zur Kultur- und Geistesgeschichte Asiens Nr. 99 ISBN-13: 978-3-7001-8378-5 ISBN-13 Online: 978-3-7001-8673-1 Subject Area: -

Nina MIRNIG - Marion RASTELLI - Vincent ELTSCHINGER
Tantric Communities in Context - complete version
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Preliminaries i
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Table of Contents v
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Preface vii
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Introduction ix
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Alexis Sanderson
How public was Śaivism? 1
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Shaman Hatley
Sisters and consorts, adepts and goddesses: Representations of women in the Brahmayāmala 49
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Csaba Kiss
The Bhasmāṅkura in Śaiva texts 83
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Robert Leach
Renegotiating ritual identities: Blurred boundaries between Pāñcarātra ritual communities in South India 107
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Klaus-Dieter Mathes
*Sahajavajra’s integration of Tantra into mainstream Buddhism: An analysis of his *Tattvadaśakaṭīkā and *Sthitisamāsa 137
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Christian Ferstl
Bāṇa’s literary representation of a South Indian Śaivite 171
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Judit Törzsök
Whose dharma? Śaiva and Śākta community rules and Dharmaśāstric prescriptions 205
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Ellen Gough
Tantric ritual components in the initiation of a Digambara Jain 233
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Péter-Dániel Szántó
Minor Vajrayāna texts V: The Gaṇacakravidhi attributed to Ratnākaraśānti 275
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Ryugen Tanemura
The recipient of the Tantric Buddhist funeral 315
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Marion Rastelli
Narratives as a medium for appealing to the royal court: A look into the Ahirbudhnyasaṃhitā 335
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Francesco Bianchini
In case of emergency: Addressing rulers in the Ahirbudhnyasaṃhitā 363
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Dominic Goodall
Damanotsava: On love in spring, on what Jñānaśambhu wrote, and on the spread of public festivals into the Mantramārga 385
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Gudrun Bühnemann
Hanumān worship under the kings of the late Malla period in Nepal 425
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Nina Mirnig
“Rudras on Earth” on the eve of the Tantric Age: The Śivadharmaśāstra and the making of Śaiva lay and initiatory communities 471
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Peter Bisschop
Inclusivism revisited: The worship of other gods in the Śivadharmaśāstra, the Skandapurāṇa, and the Niśvāsamukha 511
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S.A.S. Sarma
Mātṛtantra texts of South India with special reference to the worship of Rurujit in Kerala and to three different communities associated with this worship 539
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Gergely Hidas
Further Mahāpratisarā fragments from Gilgit 571
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Index 587
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