Table of Contents
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part I. South Asia
- Recoding the Natural and Animating the Imaginary. Kaula Body-practices in the Paraśurāma-Kalpasūtra, Ritual Transfers, and the Politics of Representation
- Some Observations on an Uṣṇīṣa Abhiṣeka Rite in Atikūṭa’s Dhāraṇīsaṃgraha
- From Mātr̥ to Yoginī. Continuity and Transformation in the South Asian Cults of the Mother Goddesses
- Rivers to the Sky: Transformation, Metaphor, and Worldview in Bengali Tantric Traditions
- Modern Bengali Śākta Tāntrikas: Ethnography, Image, and Stereotype
- Transformations in the Textual Tradition of Dhūmāvatī. Changes in the Reception of the Tantric Mahāvidyā-Goddess in Ritual, Function, Iconography, and Mythology
- Reconnecting to What? Imagined Continuities and Discursive Overlaps at Tantrapīṭhas in Central and Eastern India
- The Absent Mother and Bodied Speech. Psychology and Gender in late Medieval Tantra
- Part II. Mongolia, Tibet, and China
- Embodying the Dharma. The Buddhist Way into Mongolia
- Amitāyus and the Development of Tantric Practices for Longevity and Health in Tibet
- Ritual Expertise and Imperial Sovereignty; Some Remarks on Tantric Ritual Pragmatics in Medieval China
- The Trouble with Tantra in China: Reflections on Method and History
- Part III. Japan
- Part IV. … and Beyond
- Kālacakra in Transition: From the Apocalypse to the Promotion of World Peace
- Remembering Ourselves: On Some Countercultural Echoes of Contemporary Tantric Studies
- Tantra, American Style: From the Path of Power to the Yoga of Sex
- The Serpent Rises in the West: Positive Orientalism and Reinterpretation of Tantra in the Western Left-Hand Path
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
Transformations in the Textual Tradition of Dhūmāvatī. Changes in the Reception of the Tantric Mahāvidyā-Goddess in Ritual, Function, Iconography, and Mythology
Zeiler, Xenia
Citation Information
Transformations and Transfer of Tantra in Asia and Beyond
Edited by Keul, István
DE GRUYTER
2012
Pages: 165-194
eBook ISBN: 9783110258110
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