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Tables of Contents for Tantra in Practice
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Princeton Readings in Religions
v
Note on Transliteration
vii
Contents by Tradition
xiii
Contents by Country
xv
Contributors
xvii
Introduction
3
38
David Gordon White
Gurus and Adepts
The Tantric Guru
41
11
Andre Padoux
King Kunji's Banquet
52
20
Matthew T. Kapstein
Interviews with a Tantric Kali Priest: Feeding Skulls in the Town of Sacrifice
72
9
June McDaniel
A Parody of the Kapalikas in the Mattavilasa
81
16
David N. Lorenzen
A Trance Healing Session with Mataji
97
22
Kathleen M. Erndl
Kings and Priests
The Consecration of the Monastic Compound at Mount Koya by Kukai
119
12
David L. Gardiner
Praises of the Drunken Peacocks
131
15
Richard H. Davis
Precepts for an Emperor
146
21
Allan G. Grapard
Devotees and Deities
Raising Snakes in Bengal: The Use of Tantric Imagery in Sakta Poetry Contests
167
17
Rachel Fell McDermott
The Wedding of Siva and the Goddess in the
184
11
Kulalikamnaya Teun Goudriaan
An Advertised Secret: The Goddess Taleju and the King of Kathmandu
195
11
Bronwen Bledsoe
Tantric Rites in Antal's Poetry
206
25
D. Dennis Hudson
Traditions in Transition and Conflict
The Jain Monk Jinapati Suri Gets the Better of a Nath Yogi
231
8
Paul Dundas
Longchenpa and the Possession of the Dakinis
239
27
David Germano
Janet Gyatso
The Anonymous Agama Prakasa: Preface to a Nineteenth-Century Gujarati Polemic
266
19
Robin Rinehart
Tony K. Stewart
Conversation between Guru Hasan Kabiruddin and Jogi Kanipha: Tantra Revisited by the Isma ili Preachers
285
14
Dominique-Sila Khan
Tantric Paths
Emptiness and Dust: Zen Dharma Transmission Rituals
299
9
William Bodiford
The Necklace of Immortality: A Seventeenth-Century Vaisnava Sahajiya Text
308
18
Glen A. Hayes
The Tibetan Practice of the Mantra Path According to Lce-sgom-pa
326
21
Yael Bentor
The Ocean of the Heart: Selections from the Kularnava Tantra
347
14
Douglas Renfrew Brooks
Tantric Buddhism and Chinese Thought in East Asia
361
22
Fabio Rambelli
Rites and Techniques
Worship of the Ladies of the Dipper
383
13
Charles D. Orzech
James H. Sanford
The Great Wisdom Mother and the Gcod Tradition
396
21
Giacomella Orofino
Worship of Bell-Ears the Great Hero, a Jain Tantric Deity
417
17
John E. Cort
Secret Yantras and Erotic Display for Hindu Temples
434
13
Michael D. Rabe
The Six Rites of Magic
447
16
Gudrun Buhnemann
The Worship of Kali According to the Todala Tantra
463
26
Sanjukta Gupta
Ritual Manual for the Protective Fire Offering Devoted to Manjusri, Chuin Lineage
489
20
Richard K. Payne
The Purification of the Body
509
14
Gavin Flood
Yoga and Meditation
A Tantric Meditation on Emptiness
523
20
Donald S. Lopez Jr.
Japanese Tantra, the Tachikawa-ryu, and Ryobu Shinto
543
14
Bernard Faure
Assorted Topics of the Great Completeness by Dodrupchen III
557
16
Anne Carolyn Klein
Khetsun Sangpo Rinpoche
On the Seal of Sambhu: A Poem by Abhinavagupta
573
14
Paul E. Muller-Ortega
Vajrayoga in the Kalacakra Tantra
587
8
John Newman
Jain Tantra: Divinatory and Meditative Practices in the Twelfth-Century Yogasastra of Hemacandra
595
10
Olle Qvarnstrom
Cheating Death
605
20
Michael Walter
Glossary of Foreign Terms
625
10
Index
635