David B. Gray is the Executive Editor of Religious Studies Review, and a Board Member of the South Asian Studies Association. He is Associate Professor and Chair of the Religious Studies Department at Santa Clara University.Ryan Overbey is Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion at Wesleyan University.

• Table of Contents Introduction: Tracing Tantric Traditions Through Time and SpaceDavid B. Gray and Ryan Richard Overbey Buddhas, Siddhas, and Indian Masculine IdealsJohn Powers Converting the Dakini: Goddess Cults and Tantras of the Yoginis between Buddhism and SaivismShaman Hatley Vajrayana Traditions in NepalTodd Lewis and Naresh Man Bajracarya How Dharanis WERE Proto-Tantric: Liturgies, Ritual Manuals, and the Origins of the TantrasJacob Dalton The Purification of Heruka: On the Transmission of a Controversial Buddhist Tradition to TibetDavid B. Gray Vicissitudes of Text and Rite in the Great Peahen Queen of SpellsRyan Richard Overbey The Homa of the Northern DipperRichard K. Payne The Tantric Teachings and Rituals of the True Buddha School: the Chinese transformation of Vajrayana BuddhismTAM Wai Lun

This groundbreaking collection deftly accomplishes its aim "to explore the movement of tantric Buddhist traditions through time and space", offering students and scholars of such ritual communities a valuable historical and geographical overview.

David B. Gray is the Executive Editor of Religious Studies Review, and a Board Member of the South Asian Studies Association. He is Associate Professor and Chair of the Religious Studies Department at Santa Clara University.Ryan Overbey is Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion at Wesleyan University.

• Table of Contents Introduction: Tracing Tantric Traditions Through Time and SpaceDavid B. Gray and Ryan Richard Overbey Buddhas, Siddhas, and Indian Masculine IdealsJohn Powers Converting the Dakini: Goddess Cults and Tantras of the Yoginis between Buddhism and SaivismShaman Hatley Vajrayana Traditions in NepalTodd Lewis and Naresh Man Bajracarya How Dharanis WERE Proto-Tantric: Liturgies, Ritual Manuals, and the Origins of the TantrasJacob Dalton The Purification of Heruka: On the Transmission of a Controversial Buddhist Tradition to TibetDavid B. Gray Vicissitudes of Text and Rite in the Great Peahen Queen of SpellsRyan Richard Overbey The Homa of the Northern DipperRichard K. Payne The Tantric Teachings and Rituals of the True Buddha School: the Chinese transformation of Vajrayana BuddhismTAM Wai Lun

This groundbreaking collection deftly accomplishes its aim "to explore the movement of tantric Buddhist traditions through time and space", offering students and scholars of such ritual communities a valuable historical and geographical overview.

David B. Gray is the Executive Editor of Religious Studies Review, and a Board Member of the South Asian Studies Association. He is Associate Professor and Chair of the Religious Studies Department at Santa Clara University.Ryan Overbey is Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion at Wesleyan University.

• Table of Contents Introduction: Tracing Tantric Traditions Through Time and SpaceDavid B. Gray and Ryan Richard Overbey Buddhas, Siddhas, and Indian Masculine IdealsJohn Powers Converting the Dakini: Goddess Cults and Tantras of the Yoginis between Buddhism and SaivismShaman Hatley Vajrayana Traditions in NepalTodd Lewis and Naresh Man Bajracarya How Dharanis WERE Proto-Tantric: Liturgies, Ritual Manuals, and the Origins of the TantrasJacob Dalton The Purification of Heruka: On the Transmission of a Controversial Buddhist Tradition to TibetDavid B. Gray Vicissitudes of Text and Rite in the Great Peahen Queen of SpellsRyan Richard Overbey The Homa of the Northern DipperRichard K. Payne The Tantric Teachings and Rituals of the True Buddha School: the Chinese transformation of Vajrayana BuddhismTAM Wai Lun

This groundbreaking collection deftly accomplishes its aim "to explore the movement of tantric Buddhist traditions through time and space", offering students and scholars of such ritual communities a valuable historical and geographical overview.