Śaivism and the Tantric Traditions: Essays in Honour of Alexis G.J.S. Sanderson

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-43266-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 22, 598 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 243 mm, Gewicht: 1058 g

Reihe: Gonda Indological Studies

Academic study of the tantric traditions has blossomed in recent decades, in no small measure thanks to the magisterial contributions of Alexis G. J. S. Sanderson, until 2015 Spalding Professor of Eastern Religions and Ethics at Oxford University. This collection of essays honours him and touches several fields of Indology that he has helped to shape (or, in the case of the Saiva religions, revolutionised): the history, ritual, and philosophies of tantric Buddhism, Saivism and Vaisnavism; religious art and architecture; and Sanskrit belles lettres. Grateful former students, joined by other experts influenced by his scholarship, here offer papers that make significant contributions to our understanding of the cultural, religious, political, and intellectual histories of premodern South and Southeast Asia.

Contributors are: Peter Bisschop, Judit Törzsök, Alex Watson, Isabelle Ratié, Christopher Wallis, Péter-Dániel Szántó, Srilata Raman, Csaba Dezso, Gergely Hidas, Nina Mirnig, John Nemec, Bihani Sarkar, Jürgen Hanneder, Diwakar Acharya, James Mallinson, Csaba Kiss, Jason Birch, Elizabeth Mills, Ryugen Tanemura, Anthony Tribe, and Parul Dave-Mukherji.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Goodall, Dominic

Hatley, Shaman

Isaacson, Harunaga

Raman, Srilata

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

List of Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors

A Note on Alexis Sanderson and Indology

Dominic Goodall and Harunaga Isaacson

Bibliography of the Published Works of Alexis G.J.S. Sanderson

Introduction

Part 1 Early Saivism

1 From Mantramarga Back to Atimarga: Atimarga as a Self-referential Term

Peter Bisschop

2 Why Are the Skull-Bearers (Kapalikas) Called Soma?

Judit Törzsök

3 Dressing for Power: On vrata, carya, and vidyavrata in the Early Mantramarga, and on the Structure of the Guhyasutra of the Nisvasatattvasa?hita

Dominic Goodall

Part 2 Exegetical and Philosophical Traditions

4 Further Thoughts on Ramaka??ha’s Relationship to Earlier Positions in the Buddhist-Brahma?ical Atman Debate

Alex Watson

5 Some Hitherto Unknown Fragments of Utpaladeva’s Viv?ti (II): Against the Existence of External Objects

Isabelle Ratié

6 Alchemical Metaphors for Spiritual Transformation in Abhinavagupta’s Isvarapratyabhijñavimarsini and Isvarapratyabhijñaviv?tivimarsini

Christopher D. Wallis

7 On Vagisvarakirti’s Influence in Kashmir and among the Khmer

Péter-Dániel Szántó

8 Reflections on the King of Ascetics (Yatiraja): Ramanuja in the Devotional Poetry of Vedanta Desika

Srilata Raman

Part 3 Religion, the State, and Social History

9 Not to Worry, Vasi??ha Will Sort It Out: The Role of the Purohita in the Raghuva?sa

Csaba Dezso

10 Buddhism, Kingship and the Protection of the State: The Suvar?aprabhasottamasutra and Dhara?i Literature

Gergely Hidas

11 Adapting Saiva Tantric Initiation for Exoteric Circles: The Case of the Lokadharmi?i Dik?a and Its History in Early Medieval Sources

Nina Mirnig

12 Innovation and Social Change in the Vale of Kashmir, circa 900–1250 C.E.

John Nemec

13 Toward a History of the Navaratra, the Autumnal Festival of the Goddess

Bihani Sarkar

Part 4 Mantra, Ritual, and Yoga

14 Sarika’s Mantra

Jürgen Hanneder

15 The Kamasiddhistuti of King Vatsaraja

Diwakar Acharya

16 The Lotus Garland (padmamala) and Cord of Power (saktitantu): The Brahmayamala’s Integration of Inner and Outer Ritual

Shaman Hatley

17 The Am?tasiddhi: Ha?hayoga’s Tantric Buddhist Source Text

James Mallinson

18 A Sexual Ritual with Maya in Matsyendrasa?hita 40

Csaba Kiss

19 Ha?hayoga’s Floruit on the Eve of Colonialism

Jason Birch

Part 5 Art and Architecture

20 The Early Saiva Ma?ha: Form and Function

Libbie Mills

21 The Kriyasa?grahapañjika of Kuladatta and Its Parallels in the Saiva Prati??hatantras

Ryugen Tanemura

22 Mañjusri as Adibuddha: The Identity of an Eight-Armed Form of Mañjusri Found in Early Western Himalayan Buddhist Art in the Light of Three Namasa?giti-Related Texts

Anthony Tribe

23 Life and Afterlife of Sad?sya: Revisiting the Citrasutra through the Nationalism-Naturalism Debate in Indian Art History

Parul Dave-Mukherji

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Dominic Goodall studied under Alexis Sanderson at Oxford (doctorate 1996), joined the École Française d’Extrême-Orient (2000), and is now head of its Pondicherry Centre. He has published editions and translations of Saiva works, Sanskrit poetry and Cambodian inscriptions. He is joint-editor, with Marion Rastelli, of the Vienna dictionary of tantric terminology (Tantrikabhidhanakosa).

Shaman Hatley studied under Harunaga Isaacson at the University of Pennsylvania (doctorate 2007), taught at Concordia University until 2015, and is now Associate Professor at the University of Massachusetts Boston. His research mainly concerns Tantric Saivism, yoga, and medieval goddess cults, and his publications include The Brahmayamalatantra or Picumata, vol. I, (Pondicherry, 2018).

Harunaga Isaacson, PhD in Sanskrit (University of Leiden, 1995), was a post-doctoral research fellow at Oxford University (1995 to 2000), and held positions at Hamburg University (2000-2002) and the University of Pennsylvania (2002- 2006) before joining Hamburg University as Professor of Classical Indology in 2006. His main research areas are South Asian tantric traditions, especially Vajrayana Buddhism; classical Sanskrit poetry; Indian philosophy; Puranic literature; and manuscript studies.

Srilata Raman studied with Alexis Sanderson between the years 1986-1988, taking her M.Phil under his supervision at Oxford University. She is currently Associate Professor of Hinduism at the University of Toronto and specializes on the textual history of Tamil religion in both its Sanskrit and Tamil iterations, focusing on specific figures in both the Srivaisnava and Tamil Saiva traditions between the 12-14th and the 18-19th centuries.