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100			_aSamuel, Geoffrey _923693
245		0	_aTantric revisionings: new understandings of Tibetan Buddhism and Indian religion/ _c Geoffrey Samuel
260			_aDelhi : _bMBP, _c2005.
300			_ax,384p. : _bill. ; _c24cm.
505			_aPARTI 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
650			_a Tantric Buddhism -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region -- History. _923694
650			_aTantric Buddhism -- India -- History. _923695
650			_aTantric Buddhism. _923696
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