Tantric Communities in Context
Sacred Secrets and Public Rituals

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participants and abstracts

Programme

Thursday, 5th February

9:30–9:40

Welcoming

Vincent Eltschinger, Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia, Vienna, Austria

9:40–10:00

A short introduction to the “Visions of Community” project

Maria-Christina Lutter, University of Vienna, Austria

10:00–10:45

Keynote address: How public was the Śaiva Mantramārga?

Alexis Sanderson, University of Oxford, United Kingdom

 Coffee

11:15–11:45

From ear to ear, from mouth to mouth: Glimpses of Indian Buddhist Tantric transmission

Harunaga Isaacson, University of Hamburg, Germany

11:45–12:15

The King of Tantras as Obtained from the Sweat of the Goddess

Péter-Dániel Szántó, University of Oxford, United Kingdom

12:15–12:45

Sahajavajra's integration of Tantra into mainstream Buddhism: An analysis of his Tattvadaśakaṭīkā and Sthitisamuccaya

Klaus-Dieter Mathes, University of Vienna, Austria

 Lunch

14:00–14:30

Gya-gar Paṇḍita and Mi-nyag King: Indian-Tangut relations between the 11th and 13th centuries

Haoran Hou, Leipzig University, Germany

14:30–15:00

On the recipient of the Buddhist Tantric funeral rite

Ryugen Tanemura, Taisho University, Tokyo, Japan

15:00–15:30

Quotations or re-quotations: Scholarly activities in the Buddhist monasteries

Kenichi Kuranishi, Taisho University, Tokyo, Japan

 Coffee

16:00–16:30

Further Mahāpratisarā fragments from Gilgit and aspects of the social settings of dhāraṇī literature

Gergely Hidas, British Museum, London, United Kingdom

16:30–17:00

Aspects of the cult of the book in the Śaiva and Vaiṣṇava Tantric traditions

Florinda De Simini, University of Naples “L'Orientale”, Italy

Friday, 6th February

9:30–10:00

Inclusivism revisited: The worship of other gods in the Śivadharma, the Skandapurāṇa and the Niśvāsamukha

Peter Bisschop, Leiden University, The Netherlands

10:00–10:30

Conversion, theft, and culture: On some potential explanations for scriptural flows and interactions between Tantric communities

Paul Gerstmayr, University of Oxford, United Kingdom

10:30–11:00

The Self as a community

Somdev Vasudeva, Kyoto University, Japan

Coffee

11:30–12:00

Whose dharma? Śākta Tantric community rules (samayas) and dharmaśāstric prescriptions

Judit Törzsök, Charles-de-Gaulle University - Lille III, France

12:00–12:30

The bhasmāṅkura, the offspring of a Śaiva ascetic and a Śūdra prostitute

Csaba Kiss, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary

Lunch

14:00–14:30

Representations of women in the Brahmayāmala

Shaman Hatley, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

14:30–15:00

Mātṛtantra texts of South India with special reference to the worship of Rurujit in Kerala and to three different communities associated with this worship

S.A.S. Sarma, École Française d’Extrême-Orient, Pondicherry, France

15:00–15:30

A note on damanotsava (a spring rite of reparation) and on the twelfthcentury Saiddhāntika ritual manual called the Jñānaratnāvalī

Dominic Goodall, École Française d’Extrême-Orient, Paris, France

Coffee

16:00–16:30

An ideal rule by an initiated Śaiva king described in a Kashmirian courtly poem

Yuko Yokochi, Kyoto University, Japan

16:30–17:00

Aśvaghoṣa's and Bāṇa's literary representations of Śaiva hermits

Christian Ferstl, University of Vienna, Austria

Saturday, 7th February

10:00–10:30

Power, protection and politics: Hanumān worship in the late Malla period

Gudrun Bühnemann, University of Wisconsin-Madison, U.S.A.

10:30–11:00

The Tantric initiation of a Digambara monk

Ellen Gough, Yale University, New Haven, U.S.A.

Coffee

11:30–12:00

Narratives as a medium for appealing to the royal court: A look into the Ahirbudhnyasaṃhitā

Marion Rastelli, Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia, Vienna, Austria

12:00–12:30

Rhetoric of a military cult: The case of the Ahirbudhnyasaṃhitā

Francesco Bianchini, University of Vienna, Austria

12:30–13:00

How to become an Ekāyana

Robert Leach, University of Zurich, Switzerland