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Tantric Communities in Context - complete version

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Preliminaries

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Table of Contents

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Preface

page vii

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Introduction

page ix

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How public was Śaivism?

page 1

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Sisters and consorts, adepts and goddesses: Representations of women in the Brahmayāmala

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The Bhasmāṅkura in Śaiva texts

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Renegotiating ritual identities: Blurred boundaries between Pāñcarātra ritual communities in South India

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*Sahajavajra’s integration of Tantra into mainstream Buddhism: An analysis of his *Tattvadaśakaṭīkā and *Sthitisamāsa

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Bāṇa’s literary representation of a South Indian Śaivite

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Whose dharma? Śaiva and Śākta community rules and Dharmaśāstric prescriptions

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Tantric ritual components in the initiation of a Digambara Jain

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Minor Vajrayāna texts V: The Gaṇacakravidhi attributed to Ratnākaraśānti

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The recipient of the Tantric Buddhist funeral

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Narratives as a medium for appealing to the royal court: A look into the Ahirbudhnyasaṃhitā

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In case of emergency: Addressing rulers in the Ahirbudhnyasaṃhitā

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Damanotsava: On love in spring, on what Jñānaśambhu wrote, and on the spread of public festivals into the Mantramārga

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Hanumān worship under the kings of the late Malla period in Nepal

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“Rudras on Earth” on the eve of the Tantric Age: The Śivadharmaśāstra and the making of Śaiva lay and initiatory communities

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Inclusivism revisited: The worship of other gods in the Śivadharmaśāstra, the Skandapurāṇa, and the Niśvāsamukha

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Mātṛtantra texts of South India with special reference to the worship of Rurujit in Kerala and to three different communities associated with this worship

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Further Mahāpratisarā fragments from Gilgit

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Index

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