This volume explores the movement of tantric Buddhist traditions through time and space, from the early history of tantric Buddhism to the present day. These studies investigate the development of tantric Buddhist traditions in India, their dissemination into Central and East Asia, and exchanges between tantric Buddhist and rival religious traditions. From the hyper-masculine Buddha to the ritualized bodies of the siddhas, the first chapter traces shifts in Indian Buddhist ideal masculinities. The second chapter explores the intersection of Buddhism and Śaivism in early medieval India through the evolving figure of the yoginī. Another chapter explores how tenth- and eleventh-century scholars and translators in Tibet “purified” a Buddhist deity that showed signs of Śaiva Hindu origins. Two chapters use often-overlooked Tibetan and Chinese materials to explore the influence of incantations and ritual manuals on the formation of early tantric Buddhist literature. The volume’s longest chapter is a detailed history of Vajrayāna Buddhism in Nepal. The work concludes with two studies of hybridity and transformation in East Asia: one on the Homa of the Northern Dipper, a fire ritual which passed from India to China to Japan, adapting to Daoist, Buddhist, and Shintō contexts; and another on the True Buddha School, a contemporary Chinese transformation of Vajrayāna Buddhism.
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Introduction: Tracing Tantric Traditions Through Time and Space 1. Buddhas, Siddhas, and Indian Masculine Ideals John Powers 2. Converting the Ḍākinī: Goddess Cults and Tantras of the Yoginīs Between Buddhism and śaivism Shaman Hatley 3. Vajrayāna Traditions in Nepal Todd Lewis and Naresh Man Bajracarya 4. How Dhāraṇīs WERE Proto-Tantric: Liturgies, Ritual Manuals, and the Origins of the Tantras Jacob P. Dalton 5. The Purification of Heruka: On the Transmission of a Controversial Buddhist Tradition to Tibet David B. Gray 6. Vicissitudes of Text and Rite in the Great Peahen Queen of Spells Ryan Richard Overbey 7. The Homa of the Northern Dipper Richard K. Payne 8. The Tantric Teachings and Rituals of the True Buddha School: The Chinese Transformation of Vajrayāna Buddhism Tam Wai Lun Index
