Richard K. Payne, Professor Emeritus, Institute of Buddhist Studies. Glen A. Hayes, Professor Emeritus, Bloomfield College.
Richard K. Payne is Professor Emeritus at the Institute of Buddhist Studies. He is founding Editor-in-Chief of Oxford Bibliographies: Buddhism. He also established the Pure Land Buddhist Studies Series, University of Hawai'i Press; the Contemporary Issues in Buddhist Studies Series, Institute of Buddhist Studies; and is Senior Editor for Pacific World: Journal of the Institute of Buddhist Studies. His blog is "Buddhist Thought and Practice".
Glen A. Hayes is Professor Emeritus at Bloomfield College. He co-founded the Society for Tantric Studies (STS) in 1986, and the Tantric Studies unit of the American Academy of Religion (AAR) in 2002. He also served on the steering committee of the Cognitive Science of Religion unit of the AAR. He in an editor at Religions online, where he has edited issues with papers from STS meetings, as well as on uses of cognitive science in tantric studies. His research areas include the translation and study of medieval Bengali Hindu tantric texts and the uses of conceptual metaphor theory.
Contributors:
Andrea Acri
Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Sorbonne
L. S. Akshunna
Lambakarna Bhatta Institute of Tantric Studies
Anna Andreeva
Universitat Heidelberg
Sravana Borkataky-Varma
University of Houston
Christopher Key Chapple
Loyola Marymount University
Swati Chemburkar
Benaras Hindu University
Ronald M. Davidson
Fairfield University
Paul B. Donnelly
Northern Arizona University
David L. Gardiner
Colorado College
Anna A. Golovkova
Lake Forest College
Dominic Goodall
�cole Francaise d'Extreme-Orient
Ellen Gough
Emory University
David B. Gray
Santa Clara University
Paul Hackett
Columbia University
Georgios T. Halkias
Hong Kong University
Glen A. Hayes
Bloomfield College of Montclair State University, Emeritus
Jeffrey Kotyk
McMaster University
Maria Kozhevnikov
National University of Singapore
David Peter Lawrence
University of North Dakota
Jeffrey S. Lidke
Berry College
Carola Erika Lorea
Tubingen University
Matthew McMullen
Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture, Nagoya
Libbie Mills
University of Toronto
John Nemec
University of Virginia
Lubom�r Ondracka
Charles University, Prague
Richard K. Payne
Institute of Buddhist Studies, Emeritus
Geoffrey Samuel
Cardiff University, Emeritus
Patricia Sauthoff
Hong Kong Baptist University
Jason Schwartz
University of California, Santa Barbara
Peter Sharrock
School of African and Oriental Studies, University of London
Judith Simmer-Brown
Naropa University
Iain Sinclair
Nan Tien Institute
Michael Slouber
Western Washington University
Tsunehiko Sugiki
Hiroshima University
Eric Haruki Swanson
Loyola Marymount University
Sthaneshwar Timalsina
Stony Brook University
Elizabeth Noelle Tinsley
University of California, Irvine
Hugh B. Urban
Ohio State University
Sam van Schaik
British Library
Vesna A. Wallace
University of California, Santa Barbara
David Gordon White
University of California, Santa Barbara, Emeritus
Ben Williams
Naropa University
1. Tantric Studies: Scholarly Issues, Methodologies, and Collaborations
Richard K. Payne and Glen A. Hayes
Part I. Action
2. Initiation (Abhisheka) in Indian Buddhism
Ronald M. Davidson
3. The Inner and Outer Worship: The Rhythms of Domestic and Temple Practice in Nepālī Tantra
Jeffrey S. Lidke and L. S. Akshunna
4. On the Union of Emptiness and Bliss: Buddhist Thought and Tantric Practice
Paul Donnelly
5. Goryū Shintō Goma: Tantric Foundations
Richard K. Payne
6. Homa in Jain Traditions.
Ellen Gough
7. The Neuroscience of Tantric Practice
Geoffrey Samuel and Maria Kozhevnikov
Part II. Transformations: Soteriology, Astrology, Alchemy, and Healing
8. Cosmic Process, Philosophy, and Soteriology in the Works of Abhinavagupta
Sthaneshwar Timalsina
9. Esoteric Physiology and Subtle Body Systems
Glen A. Hayes
10. Transforming the Body by Mastering the Elements, Some Tantric Sources
Lubomír Ondračka
11. Cosmology and Embryology in Medieval Japan
Anna Andreeva
12. Astrology and Astral Magic in Tantric Japan
Jeffrey Kotyk
13. Tantric Dimensions of Alchemy
Patricia Sauthoff
Part III. Gender, Cosmogony, Embodiment and Power
14. Śrīvidyā and Goddess Traditions: A Critical Historiographic Essay
Anna A. Golovkova
15. The Ḍākinī in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism
Judith Simmer-Brown
16. Three Shades of Tantric Yoga: Chapter 20 of the Netra Tantra
David Gordon White
17. Generative Buddhahood: Enlightened Plants and Trees in Japanese Tendai Esoteric Buddhism
Matthew McMullen
18. Embodiment and Subjugation: Exoteric-Esoteric Buddhist Practice in Medieval Japan
Eric Haruki Swanson
Part IV. Extraordinary Beings: Deities and Founders
19. �Hard-Core� Tantric Traditions and the Cult of Bhairava in Java
Andrea Acri
20. Timeless Symbolism: An Early Dzogchen Patriarch's Hagiography and Scriptures
Georgios T. Halkias
21. The Twin Miracle: The Two-Headed Aizen Myōō [Ryōzu Aizen] in Exorcistic Shugendō Practice at the Japanese Tantric Buddhist Complex of Kōyasan
Elizabeth Noelle Tinsley
22. A Dharma Protector in a Transcultural Tantric Buddhist Context
Vesna A. Wallace
23. The Goddesses of Jaina Tantra
Michael Slouber
Part V. Imagery: Art History and Visual Expressions
24. The Tantric Temple: Rule-Bound Beauty
Libbie Mills
25. Mandalas and Landscape in Maritime Asia
Peter Sharrock
26. Mandalas and Monarchs: Tantra and Temple Architecture in Buddhist Southeast Asia
Swati Chemburkar
27. Jain Tantric Diagrams of the Goddess Padmāvatī
Ellen Gough
28. Imagery in Tantric Buddhism
David L. Gardiner
29. Attention, Memory, and the Imagination: A Cognitive Analysis of Tantric Visualization
Sthaneshwar Timalsina
Part VI. Language, Literature, Words, and Metaphor
30. Exploring Metaphors and Conceptual Blending in Vaiṣṇava Sahajiyā Texts
Glen A. Hayes
31. Cosmogenesis and Phonematic Emanation
Ben Williams
32. Jain Tantra: An Overview
Christopher Key Chapple
33. Tibetan Tantric Buddhist Literature
Paul Hackett
34. The Cakrasaṃvara Tantra
David B. Gray
Part VII. Social Organization and Institutions
35. What the Kālamukhas Can Tell Us about Identity, Institutions, and Community in the Early Medieval Deccan
Jason Schwartz
36. The Total Revelation Tantra: The Geopolitical Origins and Significance of the Name, Nepālī Sarvāmnāya Tantra
Jeffrey S. Lidke and L. S. Akshunna
37. The Soteriologies of Buddhist Tantrism
Iain Sinclair
38. Singing Tantra: Aural Media and Sonic Soteriology in Bengali Esoteric Lineages
Carola Erika Lorea
39. From the Fringes to Center Stage: Hijṛās and Fertility Rituals in Kāmākhyā
Sravana Borkataky-Varma
Part VIII. History and Historiography: Events, Memory, and Recollection
40. Śaiva Tantra: Toward a History
Dominic Goodall
41. On the Chronology of the Buddhist Tantras
Tsunehiko Sugiki
42. Somānanda's Śivadṛṣṭi as an Argument against Dharmakīrti
John Nemec
43. Dynamic Manifestations of Eternal Divinity: Late Nondual Śaivism on the Emanation and Contemplative Reabsorption of Time
David Peter Lawrence
44. Buddhist Magic and Vajrayāna
Sam van Schaik
45. Modernity and Neo-Tantra
Hugh B. Urban