Interpreting the Vajra Rosary
Subtitle: Truth and Method Meets Wisdom and Method
By: David R. Kittay
Publisher: [publisher not identified]
Published: 2011
Place of publication: [New York, N.Y.?]
Language: eng
Description: This essay, accompanied by the first full English translation of the Vajramala or Vajra Rosary, one of the explanatory Tantras of the Buddhist Guhyasamaja, or Secret Community, Tantric system, and a partial translation of Alamkakalasa's Commentary, sets out a novel hermeneutic method by which twenty-first century scholars of religion might approach the interpretation of the Tantra and other texts.
Notes: Department: Religion.

Thesis advisor: Robert A. F. Thurman.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Columbia University, 2011.