Tantric Studies: Fruits of A Franco-German Project on Early Tantra

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This compendium of eight papers, seeks to discover the interrelationships and common ritual syntax of the Saiva, Buddhist, Vaisnava and Saura traditions of Tantra, with a particular emphasis on the Buddhist Manjusriyamulakalpa and the Saiva Nisvasatattvasamhita.

It also throws light on the Saiva tattvas and their evolution, yogini-temples, alphabet-deities, an early treatise of snake-related magic, iconographic prescriptions in early pratisthatantras, the implications of the use of the bhutasankhya system, and a fragment of a Buddhist trantric sadhana.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Dominic Goodall

Dominic Goodall was educated at Ampleforth College and at Pembroke College, Oxford, where he read Sanskrit. Presently he is attached to the Institut Francais de Pondichery in South India and is working with the manuscript collection there.

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Title
Tantric Studies: Fruits of A Franco-German Project on Early Tantra
Collection Indologie
Author
Edition
1st. ed.
Publisher
ISBN
8184702116, 9788184702118
Length
xxix+306p., 10 Colour; 10 B/W Plates; Index; 25m.
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