This volume presents selected papers presented at 6th International Csoma de Koros Symposium on ‘Hermeneutics of Tantrik Literature and Culture’ (13th – 15th March 2009) organized by the Department of Indo-Tibetan Studies and the Centre for Buddhist Studies, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan, The Asiatic Society, Kolkata, and the Csoma de Koros Society, Hungary as well as additional articles to complement the topic.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Andrea Loseries
Prof. Dr. Andrea Loseries, Head, Convener and Editor, Department of Indo-Tibetan Studies, Centre for Buddist Studies, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan. She is an Austrian national, and has studied in Paris, santiniketan and Vienna. History of Asian Art, Museology, Tibetology, Indology and Ethnology (1971-1983). She is an expert on Buddhist Art and Tibetan Iconography, sian Languages and Civilisations, Cultural History and Buddhist Studies and has performed field studies and research projects in Tibet, Mongolia, Japan, India and in the Austrain Alps. She has published several monographies and over hundred research papers, has produced several ethnographical films, curated five major art exhibitions, was convener of three international conference and director of the cultural program of Kalachakra Graz 2002, next to her teaching activities at the University of Graz and the Academy of Buddhist Education, Salzburg (Austria) In 2006 she joined the Department of Indo-Tibetan Studies as Professor and Head. Author of Tibetan Mahayoga Tantra: An Ethno- Historical Study of Skulls, Bones and Relics, New Delhi,2008.
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