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
From Mātr̥ to Yoginī. Continuity and Transformation in the South Asian Cults of the Mother Goddesses
Hatley, Shaman
Citation Information
Transformations and Transfer of Tantra in Asia and Beyond
Edited by Keul, István
DE GRUYTER
2012
Pages: 99-130
eBook ISBN: 9783110258110
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