Princeton Readings in Religions 7
Note on Transliteration 9
Contents by Tradition 15
Contents by Country 17
Contributors 19
Introduction • David Gordon White 23
Gurus and Adepts 59
1. The Tantric Guru • Andre Padoux 61
2. King Kunji’s Banquet • Matthew T. Kapstein 72
3. Interviews with a Tantric Kali Priest: Feeding Skulls in the Town of Sacrifice • June McDaniel 92
4. A Parody of the Kapalikas in the Mattavilasa • David N. Lorenzen 101
5. A Trance Healing Session with Mataji • Kathleen M. Erndl 117
Kings and Priests 137
6. The Consecration of the Monastic Compound at Mount Koya by Kukai • David L. Gardiner 139
7. Praises of the Drunken Peacocks • Richard H. Davis 151
8. Precepts for an Emperor • Allan G. Grapard 166
Devotees and Deities 185
9. Raising Snakes in Bengal: The Use of Tantric Imagery in Sakta Poetry Contests • Rachel Fell McDermott 187
10. The Wedding of Siva and the Goddess in the Kulalikamnaya • Teun Goudriaan 204
11. An Advertised Secret: The Goddess Taleju and the King of Kathmandu • Bronwen Bledsoe 215
12. Tantric Rites in A??a?’s Poetry • D. Dennis Hudson 226
Traditions in Transition and Conflict 249
13. The Jain Monk Jinapati Suri Gets the Better of a Nath Yogi • Paul Dundas 251
14. Longchenpa and the Possession of the ?akinis • David Germano and Janet Gyatso 259
15. The Anonymous Agama Prakasa: Preface to a Nineteenth-Century Gujarati Polemic • Robin Rinehart and Tony K. Stewart 286
16. Conversation between Guru Hasan Kabiruddin and Jogi Kanipha: Tantra Revisited by the Isma ?ili Preachers • Dominique-Sila Khan 305
Tantric Paths 317
17. Emptiness and Dust: Zen Dharma Transmission Rituals • William Bodiford 319
18. The Necklace of Immortality : A Seventeenth-Century Vai??ava Sahajiya Text • Glen A. Hayes 328
19. The Tibetan Practice of the Mantra Path According to Lce-sgom-pa • Yael Bentor 346
20. The Ocean of the Heart: Selections from the Kular?ava Tantra • Douglas Renfrew Brooks 367
21. Tantric Buddhism and Chinese Thought in East Asia • Fabio Rambelli 381
Rites and Techniques 401
22. Worship of the Ladies of the Dipper • Charles D. Orzech and James H. Sanford 403
23. The Great Wisdom Mother and the Gcod Tradition • Giacomella Orofino 416
24. Worship of Bell-Ears the Great Hero, a Jain Tantric Deity • John E. Cort 437
25. Secret Yantras and Erotic Display for Hindu Temples • Michael D. Rabe 454
26. The Six Rites of Magic • Gudrun Buhnemann 467
27. The Worship of Kali According to the To?ala Tantra • Sanjukta Gupta 483
28. Ritual Manual for the Protective Fire Offering Devoted to Manjusri, Chuin Lineage • Richard K. Payne 509
29. The Purification of the Body • Gavin Flood 529
Yoga and Meditation 541
30. A Tantric Meditation on Emptiness • Donald S. Lopez, Jr. 543
31. Japanese Tantra, the Tachikawa-ryu, and Ryobu Shinto • Bernard Faure 563
32. Assorted Topics of the Great Completeness by Dodrupchen III • Anne Carolyn Klein, Oral commentary by Khetsun Sangpo Rinpoche 577
33. On the Seal of Sambhu: A Poem by Abhinavagupta • Paul E. Muller-Ortega 593
34. Vajrayoga in the Kalacakra Tantra • John Newman 607
35. Jain Tantra: Divinatory and Meditative Practices in the Twelfth-Century Yogasastra of Hemacandra • Olle Qvarnstrom 615
36. Cheating Death • Michael Walter 625
Glossary of Foreign Terms 645
Index 655