Ritual and Speculation in Early Tantrism

Teun Goudriaan is Professor in the Department of Oriental Languages at the University of Utrecht. His other books on Indology include Maya Divine and Human: A Study of Magic and Its Religious Foundations in Sanskrit Texts; Hindu Tantrism with Sanjukta Gupta and D. J. Hoens; Hindu Tantric and SAakta Literature with Sanjukta Gupta; The Vinsaikhatantra: A SAaiva Tantra of the Left Current, edited with an Introduction and a Translation; and The Kubjikamatatantra, Kulalikamnaya Version: Critical Edition with Introduction with Dr. Jan Schoterman.

• PrefaceTeun GoudraanPublications by André PadouxChapter 1 Jnana and Kriya : Relation between Theory and Practice in the SaivagamasHélène BrunnerChapter 2 On Purascarana : Kularnavatantra, Chapter 15Gudrun BühnemannChapter 3 Becoming a Siva, and Acting as One in Saiva WorshipRichard H. DavisChapter 4 "Having Become a God, He Should Sacrifice to the Gods"Vrajavallabha DvivedaChapter 5 The Stages of Awakening in the Svacchanda-tantraTeun GoudriaanChapter 6 Yoga and Antaryaga in PancaratraSanjukta GuptaChapter 7 Pasupata Studies (1)Minoru HaraChapter 8 Tantric Meditation: Vocalic BeginningsPaul E. Muller-OrtegaChapter 9 Navjivan Rastogi The Yogic Disciplines in the Monistic Saiva Tantric Traditions of Kashmir: Threefold, Fourfold, and Six-LimbedNavjivan RastogiChapter 10 The Doctrines of the MalinivijayottaratantraAlexis SandersonChapter 11 The Kubjika Upanisad and Its Atharvavedic CharacterJan A. SchotermanChapter 12 The Pratyabhijna and the Logical-Epistemological School of BuddhismRaffaele TorellaIndex