The Oxford Handbook of Tantric Studies

Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-0-19-754988-9
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 1272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 181 mm x 250 mm, Gewicht: 2223 g

Since the earliest encounters between tantric traditions and Western scholars of religion, tantra has posed a challenge. The representation of tantra, whether in Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Tibet, or Japan, has tended to emphasize the antinomian, decadent aspects, which, as attention-grabbing as they were for audiences in the West, created a one-dimensional understanding, and hampered the academic study of the field for more than a century. Additionally, the Western perspective on religion has been dominated by doctrinal studies. As a result, sectarian boundaries between different tantric traditions are frequently replicated in the scholarship, and research tends to be sequestered according to different schools of South Asian, Central Asian, Southeast Asian, and East Asian tantric traditions.

The Oxford Handbook of Tantric Studies is intended to overcome these obstacles, facilitating collaboration between scholars working on different forms of tantra. The Introduction provides an overview of major issues confronting the field today, including debates regarding the definition and category of "tantra" historical origins, recent developments in gender studies and tantra, ethnography and "lived tantra" and cognitive approaches to tantra. Using a topical framework, the opening section explores the concept of action, one of the most prominent features of tantra, which includes performing rituals, practicing meditation, chanting, embarking on a pilgrimage, or re-enacting moments from a sacred text. From there, the sections cover broad topics such as transformation, gender and embodiment, "extraordinary" beings (such as deities and saints), art and visual expressions, language and literature, social organizations, and the history and historiography of tantra. With co-editors in chief who specialize in the Hindu and Buddhist perspectives, a global pool of contributors, and over 40 chapters, the Handbook aims to provide the definitive reference work in this dynamic field.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Payne, Richard K.

Hayes, Glen A.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Buddhismus Zen-Buddhismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Hinduismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen Östliche Religionen Jainismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Buddhismus Tibetischer Buddhismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1. Tantric Studies: Scholarly Issues, Methodologies, and Collaborations

- Richard K. Payne and Glen A. Hayes

- Part I. Action

- 2. Initiation (Abhiseka) in Indian Buddhism

- Ronald M. Davidson

- 3. The Inner and Outer Worship: The Rhythms of Domestic and Temple Practice in Nepali Tantra

- Jeffrey S. Lidke and L. S. Akshunna

- 4. On the Union of Emptiness and Bliss: Buddhist Thought and Tantric Practice

- Paul Donnelly

- 5. Goryu Shinto Goma: Tantric Foundations

- Richard K. Payne

- 6. Homa in Jain Traditions.

- Ellen Gough

- 7. The Neuroscience of Tantric Practice

- Geoffrey Samuel and Maria Kozhevnikov

- Part II. Transformations: Soteriology, Astrology, Alchemy, and Healing

- 8. Cosmic Process, Philosophy, and Soteriology in the Works of Abhinavagupta

- Sthaneshwar Timalsina

- 9. Esoteric Physiology and Subtle Body Systems

- Glen A. Hayes

- 10. Transforming the Body by Mastering the Elements, Some Tantric Sources

- Lubomír Ondracka

- 11. Cosmology and Embryology in Medieval Japan

- Anna Andreeva

- 12. Astrology and Astral Magic in Tantric Japan

- Jeffrey Kotyk

- 13. Tantric Dimensions of Alchemy

- Patricia Sauthoff

- Part III. Gender, Cosmogony, Embodiment and Power

- 14. Srividya and Goddess Traditions: A Critical Historiographic Essay

- Anna A. Golovkova

- 15. The Dakini in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism

- Judith Simmer-Brown

- 16. Three Shades of Tantric Yoga: Chapter 20 of the Netra Tantra

- David Gordon White

- 17. Generative Buddhahood: Enlightened Plants and Trees in Japanese Tendai Esoteric Buddhism

- Matthew McMullen

- 18. Embodiment and Subjugation: Exoteric-Esoteric Buddhist Practice in Medieval Japan

- Eric Haruki Swanson

- Part IV. Extraordinary Beings: Deities and Founders

- 19. “Hard-Core” Tantric Traditions and the Cult of Bhairava in Java

- Andrea Acri

- 20. Timeless Symbolism: An Early Dzogchen Patriarch's Hagiography and Scriptures

- Georgios T. Halkias

- 21. The Twin Miracle: The Two-Headed Aizen Myoo [Ryozu Aizen] in Exorcistic Shugendo Practice at the Japanese Tantric Buddhist Complex of Koyasan

- Elizabeth Noelle Tinsley

- 22. A Dharma Protector in a Transcultural Tantric Buddhist Context

- Vesna A. Wallace

- 23. The Goddesses of Jaina Tantra

- Michael Slouber

- Part V. Imagery: Art History and Visual Expressions

- 24. The Tantric Temple: Rule-Bound Beauty

- Libbie Mills

- 25. Mandalas and Landscape in Maritime Asia

- Peter Sharrock

- 26. Mandalas and Monarchs: Tantra and Temple Architecture in Buddhist Southeast Asia

- Swati Chemburkar

- 27. Jain Tantric Diagrams of the Goddess Padmavati

- Ellen Gough

- 28. Imagery in Tantric Buddhism

- David L. Gardiner

- 29. Attention, Memory, and the Imagination: A Cognitive Analysis of Tantric Visualization

- Sthaneshwar Timalsina

- Part VI. Language, Literature, Words, and Metaphor

- 30. Exploring Metaphors and Conceptual Blending in Vaisnava Sahajiya Texts

- Glen A. Hayes

- 31. Cosmogenesis and Phonematic Emanation

- Ben Williams

- 32. Jain Tantra: An Overview

- Christopher Key Chapple

- 33. Tibetan Tantric Buddhist Literature

- Paul Hackett

- 34. The Cakrasamvara Tantra

- David B. Gray

- Part VII. Social Organization and Institutions

- 35. What the Kalamukhas Can Tell Us about Identity, Institutions, and Community in the Early Medieval Deccan

- Jason Schwartz

- 36. The Total Revelation Tantra: The Geopolitical Origins and Significance of the Name, Nepali Sarvamnaya Tantra

- Jeffrey S. Lidke and L. S. Akshunna

- 37. The Soteriologies of Buddhist Tantrism

- Iain Sinclair

- 38. Singing

Über Autor(innen)

Richard K. Payne is Professor Emeritus at the Institute of Buddhist Studies. He is founding Editor-in-Chief of Oxford Bibliographies: Buddhism. He also established the Pure Land Buddhist Studies Series, University of Hawai'i Press; the Contemporary Issues in Buddhist Studies Series, Institute of Buddhist Studies; and is Senior Editor for Pacific World: Journal of the Institute of Buddhist Studies. His blog is "Buddhist Thought and Practice".

Glen A. Hayes is Professor Emeritus at Bloomfield College. He co-founded the Society for Tantric Studies (STS) in 1986, and the Tantric Studies unit of the American Academy of Religion (AAR) in 2002. He also served on the steering committee of the Cognitive Science of Religion unit of the AAR. He in an editor at Religions online, where he has edited issues with papers from STS meetings, as well as on uses of cognitive science in tantric studies. His research areas include the translation and study of medieval Bengali Hindu tantric texts and the

uses of conceptual metaphor theory.