PDNRL No. 21 Max Nihom: Studies in Indian and Indo-Indonesian Tantrism. The Kuñjarakarṇadharmakathana and the Yogatantra. Vienna 1994, 222p. EUR 29.-

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  • Contents

    Introductory Remarks (9)

    1.       A Diagnostic Feature of Indian Buddhist Tantric Ritual in the Old Javanese Kuñjarakarṇadharmakathana (19)

    1.1.  The Tantric Practitioner and the Six Enemies (23)

    1.2.  The Four Gifts (caturdāna) of the Jewel Family (ratnakula) (41)

    2.       The Case of the Absent Tantra: Indian Maṇḍalas and Literary History in the Indonesian Archipelago (69)

    2.1.  Sarvadurgatipariśodhana-B, Chapter 1 (77)

    2.2.  The Jagadvinaya Maṇḍala (83)

    2.3.  Dhīḥ (91)

    2.4.  The Seed-Syllables aḥ hūṃ traṃ hrīḥ aḥ (101)

    2.5.  Discussion (113)

    3.       A ‘Vaiṣṇava’ Heaven, A ‘Śaiva’ Hell, and Buddhist Salvation:

    An Indological Essay on Indo-Javanese Tantricism (115)

    3.1.  Hell, Hell Transformed and the Kāraṇḍavyūhasūtra (117)

    3.2. Kālarātri (143)

    3.3. Kālarātri, Nīladaṇḍa and the Vajrakrodhamaṇḍala (151)

    3.4. Kālarātri, Nīladaṇḍa and the Road to Hell (175)

    4.       Bibliography (191)

    5.       Indices (215)

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