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Tantric revisionings: new understandings of Tibetan Buddhism and Indian religion/ Geoffrey Samuel

By: Samuel, Geoffrey Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Delhi : MBP, 2005Description: x,384p. : ill. ; 24cmISBN: 9788120827523Subject(s): Tantric Buddhism -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region -- History | Tantric Buddhism -- India -- History | Tantric BuddhismDDC classification: 294.3

Contents:

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

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
General Books	Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section	294.3 SAM/T (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		P14260

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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

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