Acknowledgements. v
István Keul:
Introduction. 1
PART I. SOUTH ASIA
Annette Wilke:
Recoding the Natural and Animating the Imaginary: Kaula Body-practices in the Paraśurāma-Kalpasūtra, Ritual Transfers, and the Politics of Representation. 19
Ronald M. Davidson:
Some Observations on an Uṣṇīṣa Abhiṣeka Rite in Atikūṭa’s Dhāraṇīsaṃgraha. 77
Shaman Hatley:
From Mātṛ to Yoginī. Continuity and Transformation in the South Asian Cults of the Mother Goddesses. 99
Glen Alexander Hayes:
Rivers to the Sky: Transformation, Metaphor, and Worldview in Bengali Tantric Traditions. 131
June McDaniel:
Modern Bengali Śākta Tāntrikas: Ethnography, Image, and Stereotype. 147
Xenia Zeiler:
Transformations in the Textual Tradition of Dhūmāvatī. Changes in the Reception of the Tantric Mahāvidyā-Goddess in Ritual, Function, Iconography, and Mythology. 165
István Keul:
Reconnecting to What? Imagined Continuities and Discursive Overlaps at Tantrapīṭhas in Central and Eastern India. 195
Loriliai Biernacki:
The Absent Mother and Bodied Speech. Psychology and Gender in late Medieval Tantra. 215
PART II. MONGOLIA, TIBET, AND CHINA
Karénina Kollmar-Paulenz:
Embodying the Dharma. The Buddhist Way into Mongolia. 239
Geoffrey Samuel:
Amitāyus and the Development of Tantric Practices for Longevity and Health in Tibet. 263
Martin Lehnert:
Ritual Expertise and Imperial Sovereignty; Some Remarks on Tantric Ritual Pragmatics in Medieval China. 287
Charles D. Orzech:
The Trouble with Tantra in China: Reflections on Method and History. 303
PART III. JAPAN
Lucia Dolce:
Taimitsu Rituals in Medieval Japan: Sectarian Competition and the Dynamics of Tantric Performance. 329
Richard K. Payne:
Conversions of Tantric Buddhist Ritual: The Yoshida Shintō Jūhachishintō Ritual. 365
Bernard Faure:
Impact of Tantrism on Japanese Religious Traditions: The Cult of the Three Devas. 399
PART IV. … AND BEYOND
Katja Rakow:
Kālacakra in Transition: From the Apocalypse to the Promotion of World Peace. 413
Jeffrey J. Kripal:
Remembering Ourselves: On Some Countercultural Echoes of Contemporary Tantric Studies. 435
Hugh B. Urban:
Tantra, American Style: From the Path of Power to the Yoga of Sex. 457
Kennet Granholm:
The Serpent Rises in the West: Positive Orientalism and Reinterpretation of Tantra in the Western Left-Hand Path. 495
Notes on Contributors. 521
Index. 525
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