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Description:This volume is one of the outcomes of the Franco-German project 'Early Tantra: Discovering the Interrelationships and Common Ritual Syntax of the Saiva, Buddhist, Vaisnava and Saura Traditions', a project which for just over three years was generously funded by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche and the Deutsche Forschungsge-meinschaft. The principal works that have emerged from our stimulating project on ‘Early Tantra’ are critical editions and translations of previously unpublished primary material, which have begun to appear in this new series. This volume complements those publications by gathering together some of the fruits, direct and indirect, of the wide-ranging discussions that took place during the project’s workshops. By way of introduction, the volume opens with an attempt by the editors to draw together our findings about the “Shared ritual syntax “ of some of the earliest known works of tantric traditions, with a particular emphasis on the Buddhist Manjusriyamulakalpa and the Saiva Nisavastattvasambita. Seven further contribution, by Dominic Goodall, Peter Bisschop, Judit Torzsok, Diwakar Acharya, Anna A. Slaczka, Libbie Mills and Peter-Daniel Szanto, throw light on a wide range of topics: 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 tantric sadhana.Harunaga Isaacson studied in Groningen (MA 1990) and was awarded a PhD in Sanskrit by the University of Leiden in 1995. After holding position for research and teachings at the Universities of Oxford, Hamburg and Pennsylvania, he was appointed Professor of Classical Indology in the Department of Indian and Tibetan Studies, Asien-Afrika-Institut, Humburg in 2006. His main research areas are: tantric traditions in pre-13th-centruy South Asia, especially Vajrayana Buddhism; classical Sanskrit poetry; classical Indian philosophy; and Puranic literature.After studies in Oxford and in Hamburg Dominic Goodall passed several years working in Pondicherry, where he was head of the Pondicherry Centre if the Ecole francaise d’Extreme-Orient from 2002 to 2011. He has published critical editions of Saiva works and of classical Sanskrit poetry (most recently, with Csaba Dezso, the eighth-century Kuttanimata of Damodaragupta). After four years in Paris, where he gave lectures on Cambodian and Indian Sanskrit literature at the Ecole pratique des hautes etudes (religious science section ), he is now back in Pondicherry.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Tantric Studies: Fruits of a Franco-German Project on Early Tantra. To get started finding Tantric Studies: Fruits of a Franco-German Project on Early Tantra, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 352

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Publisher: Institut Francais De Pondichery

Release: 2016

ISBN: 2855392209

Description: This volume is one of the outcomes of the Franco-German project 'Early Tantra: Discovering the Interrelationships and Common Ritual Syntax of the Saiva, Buddhist, Vaisnava and Saura Traditions', a project which for just over three years was generously funded by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche and the Deutsche Forschungsge-meinschaft. The principal works that have emerged from our stimulating project on ‘Early Tantra’ are critical editions and translations of previously unpublished primary material, which have begun to appear in this new series. This volume complements those publications by gathering together some of the fruits, direct and indirect, of the wide-ranging discussions that took place during the project’s workshops. By way of introduction, the volume opens with an attempt by the editors to draw together our findings about the “Shared ritual syntax “ of some of the earliest known works of tantric traditions, with a particular emphasis on the Buddhist Manjusriyamulakalpa and the Saiva Nisavastattvasambita. Seven further contribution, by Dominic Goodall, Peter Bisschop, Judit Torzsok, Diwakar Acharya, Anna A. Slaczka, Libbie Mills and Peter-Daniel Szanto, throw light on a wide range of topics: 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 tantric sadhana.Harunaga Isaacson studied in Groningen (MA 1990) and was awarded a PhD in Sanskrit by the University of Leiden in 1995. After holding position for research and teachings at the Universities of Oxford, Hamburg and Pennsylvania, he was appointed Professor of Classical Indology in the Department of Indian and Tibetan Studies, Asien-Afrika-Institut, Humburg in 2006. His main research areas are: tantric traditions in pre-13th-centruy South Asia, especially Vajrayana Buddhism; classical Sanskrit poetry; classical Indian philosophy; and Puranic literature.After studies in Oxford and in Hamburg Dominic Goodall passed several years working in Pondicherry, where he was head of the Pondicherry Centre if the Ecole francaise d’Extreme-Orient from 2002 to 2011. He has published critical editions of Saiva works and of classical Sanskrit poetry (most recently, with Csaba Dezso, the eighth-century Kuttanimata of Damodaragupta). After four years in Paris, where he gave lectures on Cambodian and Indian Sanskrit literature at the Ecole pratique des hautes etudes (religious science section ), he is now back in Pondicherry.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Tantric Studies: Fruits of a Franco-German Project on Early Tantra. To get started finding Tantric Studies: Fruits of a Franco-German Project on Early Tantra, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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