Back of the Book
Helene BRUNNER was a pioneering scholar of Saivism whose work helped to forge the scholarly reputation of the French institutions of research in Pondicherry. This volume of essays offered in her memory reflects the range of her interests and offers thereby a picture of the state of tantric studies today. Prefaced to the volume is a biographical sketch of Helene Brunner by her colleague and friend of many years, Andre PADOUX (director de recherché honoraire of the CNRS), as well as a complete list of her published works.
Theological and philosophical aspects of tantric literature are addressed in the contributions of Gerhard OBERHAMMER (emeritus professor, Vienna), Francesco SFERRA (Professor, Universita degli Studi di Napoli L'Orientale), and Raffaele TORELLA(Professor at La Sapienza, Rome). Peter BISSCHOP (Lecturer, Edinburgh) and Marion RASTELLI (Austrian Academy of Sciences) throw light on connections between the tantric and puranic religious worlds. Diwakar ACHARYA (Lecturer, Kyoto) has uncovered and published primary source material about initiation in pre-tantric Saivism. Iconography and tantric ideas that underly it is the subject of the article of Pierre-Sylvain Filliozat (Membre del'Academie des Inscriptions & Belles-Letters). Leslie C. ORR and Richard H. Davis (Professors of Religion at Concordia university and Bard College respectively) combine the evidence of inscriptions and tantric literature to present what we know of the participants in South Indian temple festivals in medieval times. Tantric speculations about the alphabet, particularly its written form at the time of redaction of the scriptures of the Trika, is the focus of Somdev VASUDEVA (Editor, Clay Sanskrit Library). A scripture of the Siddhanta, the 100-verse recension of the Kalottara, is edited for the first time by Dominic GOODALL (Head of the Pondicherry Center of the EFEO). Judit TORZSOK (Lecturer, Charles-de-Gaulle University, Lille 3) examines explanations given in the tantras of the "meaning" of ritual.
The largest contribution of all, taking up a third of the book, is the magisterial survey of Kashmirian Saiva exegetical literature by Alexis SANDERSON (Spalding Professor of Eastern Religions and Ethics, All Souls, Oxford).
Preface | 7 |
List des contributeurs | 14 |
Andre Padoux: Helene Brunner- Une vie, une oeuvre | 15 |
Liste des publications d'Helene Brunner | 23 |
Diwakar Acharya: The Samskarvavidhi: A Manual on the Transformatory Rite of the Lakulisa-Pasupatas | 27 |
Peter Bisschop: The description of Sivapura in the early Vayu and Skandapurana | 49 |
Richard H. Davis & Leslie C. ORR: People of the Festival | 73 |
Pierre-Sylvain Filliozat: Note sur les modes de representation de sadasiva dans l'ordonnance iconographique et architecturale du temple | 99 |
T. Ganesan: Analyses of the Vijayagama and Svayambhuvagama | 113 |
Dominic Goodall: A first edition of the Kalajnana, the shortest of the non-eclectic recensions of the Kalottara | 125 |
Gerhard Oberhammer: Bharadvajas Nyasopadesah: Bemerkungen zu Bharadvajasamhita 1, 1-70 | 167 |
Marion Rastelli: The "Pancaratra Passages" in Agnipurana 21-70 | 187 |
Alexis Sanderson: The Saiva Exegesis of Kashmir | 231 |
The Siddhanta | 242 |
The commentary on the Pingalamata | 248 |
The Kalikula | 250 |
The exegesis of the Jayadrathayamala | 252 |
The Krama Exegesis | 260 |
Uddiyana and Kashmir | 265 |
The Kalikastotra | 270 |
The Kramastotra of Eraka | 273 |
Keyuravati | 275 |
Hrasvanatha | 275 |
Hrasvanatha and Cakrabhanu | 280 |
The Sripithadvadasika | 291 |
From Cakrabhanu to Arnasimha | 292 |
The Astika of Prabodhanatha | 293 |
Paramarcanatrimsika & Cittasamtosatrimsika | 295 |
The Mahanayaprakasa of Arnasimha | 296 |
The Cidgaganacandrika of Srivatsa | 297 |
The Old Kashmiri Mahanayaprakasa | 299 |
The Anonymous Mahanayaprakasa | 308 |
The Kramavilasastotra | 317 |
The Khacakrapancakastotra | 321 |
The Bhavopaharastotra | 323 |
The Sivaratrirahasya | 328 |
The Jnanakriyadvayasataka | 329 |
The Higher Krama of the Oral Instructions | 332 |
The Chummasamketaprakasa | 333 |
The Trimsaccarcarahasya | 343 |
The Vatulanathasutra | 344 |
The Kaulasutra | 346 |
The dates of the oral instruction texts | 350 |
Abhinavagupta's works on the Krama | 352 |
Abhinavagupta and Bhutiraja | 359 |
The Svabodhasiddhi of Bhuti | 364 |
Krama works known from quotations or reports | 367 |
The Trika | 370 |
The Pratyabhijna | 382 |
Exegesis of the Vamakesvarimata | 383 |
The Saivism of the Svacchanda and Netra | 385 |
Lost Paddhatis | 387 |
Ksemaraja's Exegesis of the Svacchanda and Netra | 398 |
Other works by Ksemaraja | 399 |
The Sivasutra, Spandakarika, and their Exegesis | 402 |
The Sakta Saivism of the Maithila Kauls | 409 |
Chronology | 411 |
A Brief History | 425 |
Francesco SFERRA: Materials for the Study fo the Levels of Sound in the Sanskrit Sources of the Saivasiddhanta | 443 |
Raffaele TORELLA: Studies on Utpaladeva's Isvarapratyabhijnavivrti. Part III: Can a cognition become the object of another cognition? | 475 |
Judit TORZSOK: The Search in Saiva Scriptures for Meaning in Tantric Ritual | 485 |
Somadeva Vasudeva: Synasthetic Iconography: 1. the Nadiphantakrama | 517 |
General Bibliography | 551 |
Back of the Book
Helene BRUNNER was a pioneering scholar of Saivism whose work helped to forge the scholarly reputation of the French institutions of research in Pondicherry. This volume of essays offered in her memory reflects the range of her interests and offers thereby a picture of the state of tantric studies today. Prefaced to the volume is a biographical sketch of Helene Brunner by her colleague and friend of many years, Andre PADOUX (director de recherché honoraire of the CNRS), as well as a complete list of her published works.
Theological and philosophical aspects of tantric literature are addressed in the contributions of Gerhard OBERHAMMER (emeritus professor, Vienna), Francesco SFERRA (Professor, Universita degli Studi di Napoli L'Orientale), and Raffaele TORELLA(Professor at La Sapienza, Rome). Peter BISSCHOP (Lecturer, Edinburgh) and Marion RASTELLI (Austrian Academy of Sciences) throw light on connections between the tantric and puranic religious worlds. Diwakar ACHARYA (Lecturer, Kyoto) has uncovered and published primary source material about initiation in pre-tantric Saivism. Iconography and tantric ideas that underly it is the subject of the article of Pierre-Sylvain Filliozat (Membre del'Academie des Inscriptions & Belles-Letters). Leslie C. ORR and Richard H. Davis (Professors of Religion at Concordia university and Bard College respectively) combine the evidence of inscriptions and tantric literature to present what we know of the participants in South Indian temple festivals in medieval times. Tantric speculations about the alphabet, particularly its written form at the time of redaction of the scriptures of the Trika, is the focus of Somdev VASUDEVA (Editor, Clay Sanskrit Library). A scripture of the Siddhanta, the 100-verse recension of the Kalottara, is edited for the first time by Dominic GOODALL (Head of the Pondicherry Center of the EFEO). Judit TORZSOK (Lecturer, Charles-de-Gaulle University, Lille 3) examines explanations given in the tantras of the "meaning" of ritual.
The largest contribution of all, taking up a third of the book, is the magisterial survey of Kashmirian Saiva exegetical literature by Alexis SANDERSON (Spalding Professor of Eastern Religions and Ethics, All Souls, Oxford).
Preface | 7 |
List des contributeurs | 14 |
Andre Padoux: Helene Brunner- Une vie, une oeuvre | 15 |
Liste des publications d'Helene Brunner | 23 |
Diwakar Acharya: The Samskarvavidhi: A Manual on the Transformatory Rite of the Lakulisa-Pasupatas | 27 |
Peter Bisschop: The description of Sivapura in the early Vayu and Skandapurana | 49 |
Richard H. Davis & Leslie C. ORR: People of the Festival | 73 |
Pierre-Sylvain Filliozat: Note sur les modes de representation de sadasiva dans l'ordonnance iconographique et architecturale du temple | 99 |
T. Ganesan: Analyses of the Vijayagama and Svayambhuvagama | 113 |
Dominic Goodall: A first edition of the Kalajnana, the shortest of the non-eclectic recensions of the Kalottara | 125 |
Gerhard Oberhammer: Bharadvajas Nyasopadesah: Bemerkungen zu Bharadvajasamhita 1, 1-70 | 167 |
Marion Rastelli: The "Pancaratra Passages" in Agnipurana 21-70 | 187 |
Alexis Sanderson: The Saiva Exegesis of Kashmir | 231 |
The Siddhanta | 242 |
The commentary on the Pingalamata | 248 |
The Kalikula | 250 |
The exegesis of the Jayadrathayamala | 252 |
The Krama Exegesis | 260 |
Uddiyana and Kashmir | 265 |
The Kalikastotra | 270 |
The Kramastotra of Eraka | 273 |
Keyuravati | 275 |
Hrasvanatha | 275 |
Hrasvanatha and Cakrabhanu | 280 |
The Sripithadvadasika | 291 |
From Cakrabhanu to Arnasimha | 292 |
The Astika of Prabodhanatha | 293 |
Paramarcanatrimsika & Cittasamtosatrimsika | 295 |
The Mahanayaprakasa of Arnasimha | 296 |
The Cidgaganacandrika of Srivatsa | 297 |
The Old Kashmiri Mahanayaprakasa | 299 |
The Anonymous Mahanayaprakasa | 308 |
The Kramavilasastotra | 317 |
The Khacakrapancakastotra | 321 |
The Bhavopaharastotra | 323 |
The Sivaratrirahasya | 328 |
The Jnanakriyadvayasataka | 329 |
The Higher Krama of the Oral Instructions | 332 |
The Chummasamketaprakasa | 333 |
The Trimsaccarcarahasya | 343 |
The Vatulanathasutra | 344 |
The Kaulasutra | 346 |
The dates of the oral instruction texts | 350 |
Abhinavagupta's works on the Krama | 352 |
Abhinavagupta and Bhutiraja | 359 |
The Svabodhasiddhi of Bhuti | 364 |
Krama works known from quotations or reports | 367 |
The Trika | 370 |
The Pratyabhijna | 382 |
Exegesis of the Vamakesvarimata | 383 |
The Saivism of the Svacchanda and Netra | 385 |
Lost Paddhatis | 387 |
Ksemaraja's Exegesis of the Svacchanda and Netra | 398 |
Other works by Ksemaraja | 399 |
The Sivasutra, Spandakarika, and their Exegesis | 402 |
The Sakta Saivism of the Maithila Kauls | 409 |
Chronology | 411 |
A Brief History | 425 |
Francesco SFERRA: Materials for the Study fo the Levels of Sound in the Sanskrit Sources of the Saivasiddhanta | 443 |
Raffaele TORELLA: Studies on Utpaladeva's Isvarapratyabhijnavivrti. Part III: Can a cognition become the object of another cognition? | 475 |
Judit TORZSOK: The Search in Saiva Scriptures for Meaning in Tantric Ritual | 485 |
Somadeva Vasudeva: Synasthetic Iconography: 1. the Nadiphantakrama | 517 |
General Bibliography | 551 |