Tantric Buddhist Practice in India

Anthony Tribe is an independent scholar with a research specialization in the history and development of tantric Buddhism in India. He is the co-author of Buddhist Thought: A Complete Introduction to the Indian Tradition (2012), also published by Routledge.

• Part 1: IntroductionsOverview 1. Contexts 2. Vilâsavajra: locating the NMAA’s author3. The Nâmasaṃgîti4. Vilâsavajra’s NMAA: overviews and remarks5. The NMAA’s maṇḍala in Himalayan Art Part 2: Vilâsavajra’s Nâmamantrârthâvalokinî: an annotated translation of chapters 1–5 Conventions in the translation Chapter 1: On ‘The Request for Instruction’ Chapter 2: On ‘The Reply’ Chapter 3: On ‘The Survey of the Six Families’ Chapter 4: On ‘The Method of Awakening According to the Mâyâjâla’ Chapter 5: On ‘The Vajradhâtu-Mahâmaṇḍala of Bodhicittavajra’ Part III: Sanskrit Edition Materials and Methods 1. Sigla 2. Manuscripts 3. Method of Editing 4. Stemma Codicum 5. The Tibetan Translation of the NMAA Critical Edition of Vilâsavajra’s Nâmamantrârthâvalokinî: Chapters 1–5 Adhikâra 1 Adhikâra 2 Adhikâra 3 Adhikâra 4 Adhikâra 5 Textual notes Insignificant variants Textual collation to establish the stemma codicum Appendices Appendix 1. Works and authors cited in the NMAA Appendix 2. Saṃvara, Cakrasaṃvara and Ṣaṭprajñânaya-saṃvara citations Appendix 3. NMAA colophons Appendix 4. NMAA manuscripts: folio references Appendix 5. NMAA maṇḍala-deities and doctrinal categories Appendix 6. Sakurai’s (1988) edition of NMAA 3–4. Appendix 7. Works attributed to Vilâsavajra in Tibetan translation Appendix 8. Nâmasaṃgîti commentaries Appendix 9. Nâmasaṃgîti (1–41): parallel text and translation