TY  - BOOK
AU  - Samuel, Geoffrey
TI  - Tantric revisionings: new understandings of Tibetan Buddhism and Indian religion
SN  - 9788120827523
U1  - 294.3 
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Delhi
PB  - MBP
KW  - 	 Tantric Buddhism -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region -- History.
KW  - Tantric Buddhism -- India -- History.
KW  - Tantric Buddhism
N1  - PARTI
STARTING POINTS
I. Introduction
2. Tibet as. a Stateless Society and Some Islamic Parallels
PART II
HISTORICAL
3.. The Dissenting Tradition of Indian Tantra and its
Partial Hegemonisation in Tibet
4. Tibetan Tantra as a Form of Shamanism: Some Reflections
on the Vajrayana and its Shamanic Origins
5. Buddhism and the State in Eighth Century Tibet
6. Shamanism, Bon and Tibetan Religion
7. The Indus Valley Civilisation and Early Tibet
8. Ge-sar of gLing: The Origins and Meanings of the East
Tibetan Epic

PART III
RELIGION IN CONTEMPORARY ASIA
9. Tibet and the Southeast Asian Highlands: Rethinking
the Intellectual Context of Tibetan Studies
10. The Vajrayana in the Context of Himalayan Folk Religion
11. The Effectiveness of Goddesses, or. How Ritual Works
12. Women, Goddesses and Auspiciousness in South Asia
PART IV
BUDDHISM AND OTHER WESTERN RELIGIONS
13. Tibetan Buddhism as a World Religion: Global
Networking and its Consequences
14. The Westernisation of Tibetan Buddhism
15. The Attractions of Tantra: Two Historical Moments
ER  -