Buddhist Tantra: Methodology and  Historiography
Publisher: SABHI (Students for  the Awareness of Buddhist  Heritage of India)
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Delhi, India
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 201
ISBN-13: 9789353467944
Table of contents: title: Contents; title: INTRODUCTION; title: CHAPTER 1; title: THE HISTORIOGRAPHICAL ISSUES OF BUDDHIST TANTRA; title: Unargued preference and presumptions 10 Orientalism and Romanticism 17; title: The European concept of Buddhism 20; title: European scholars and Sanskrit Buddhist texts 24; title: The colonial discovery of „original Buddhism‟ 27; title: Academic appropriation of tantric Buddhism 29; title: Conclusion 47; title: CHAPTER 2 49; title: WESTERN INFLUENCE ON INDIAN SCHOLARS; title: Tantric Buddhism and the Orientalist tropes 51; title: Extra-Indian origin theory of Buddhist tantra 59; title: Buddhist Tantra in Hindi Literature 63; title: Corrective Voices 68 Conclusion 70; title: CHAPTER 3 73; title: THE CONCEPT OF GODDESSES IN BUDDHIST TANTRA; title: Early tantra traditions 77; title: Misunderstandings of tantra and its practices 91; title: Interpretation of Tantra by Western scholars 93; title: Feminine divine in the feminist framework 98; title: Research on goddesses of early Buddhism 101; title: Ḍākinī  and Yakṣiṇī in Buddhism 104; title: Female deities in non-Buddhist tantric systems 107; title: Divine feminine and Female Buddhas 110; title: Goddesses in the historical sources 116; title: Feminine form of Dhāraṇī 121; title: Contemplative practices and female deities 123; title: Forms of tantra deities and their visualization 127; title: Classification of Buddhist tantra 128; title: Yogic practice depicted in Vajrayoginī image 129; title: Conclusion 133; title: CHAPTER 4 135; title: TANTRIC BUDDHIST MANDALAS; title: Methodological and conceptual issues 136; title: Mandalas: the meaning and concept 138; title: Architectural liturgy of mandala 141; title: Mandala in Vaiṣṇava and Śaiva tantra texts 149; title: Body-mind metaphor of mandalas 151; title: Mandala principle in monumental architecture 155; title: Some problematic interpretation of mandala 164; title: Conclusion 165; title: BIBLIOGRAPHY 168; title: INDEX 193