TY  - BOOK
TI  - Tantra in practice
SN  - 0691057796
U1  - 294.595 
PY  - 2000///
CY  - USA
PB  - Princeton university press
N1  - Gurus and Adepts
1. The Tantric Guru • Andre Padoux
2. King Kunji's Banquet • Matthew T. Kapstein
3. Interviews with a Tantric Kali Priest; Feeding Skulls in the Town of
Sacrifice • June McDaniel
4. A Parody of the Kapalikas in the Mattavilasa n  David N. Lorenzen
5. A Trance Healing Session with Mataji • Kathleen M. Emdl
Kings and Priests
6. The Consecration of the Monastic Compound at Mount Koya by
Kukai • David L Gardiner
7. Praises of the Drunken Peacocks • Richard H. Davis
8. Precepts for an Emperor * Allan G. Grapard
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Devotees and Deities
Raising Snakes in Bengal: The Use of Tantric Imagery in Sakta
Poetry Contests • Rachel Fell McDermott
10. The Wedding of Siva and the Goddess in the Kuldlikdmnaya
• Teun Goudriaan
11. An Advertised Secret: The Goddess Taleju and the King of
Kathmandu • Bronwen Bledsoe
12. Tantric Rites in Anial's Poetry • D. Dennis Hudson
Traditions in Transition and Conflict
13. The Jain Monk jinapati Suri Gets the Better of a Nath Yogi
• Paul Dundas
14. Longchenpa and the Possession of the Dakinls • David Gctrnano
and Janet Gyalso
15. The Anonymous Agama Prakasa: Preface to a Nineteenth-Century
Gujarati Polemic • Robin Rinehart and Tony K. Stewart
16. Conversation between Guru Hasan Kabiruddln and JogI Kanipha:
Tantra Revisited by the Isma'ili Preachers • Dominique-Sila Khan
Tantric Paths
17. Emptiness and Dust: Zen Dharma Transmission Rituals
• William Bodiford
18. The Necklace of Immortality: A Seventeenth-Century Vaisnava
Sahajiya Text • Glen A. Hayes
19. The Tibetan Practice of the Mantra Path According to Lce-sgom-pa
• Yael Bentor
20. The Ocean of the Heart: Selections from the Kularnava Tantra
• Douglas Renfrew Brooks
21. Tantric Buddhism and Chinese Thought in East Asia
• Fabio Rambelli
Rites and Techniques
22. Worship of the Ladies of the Dipper • Charles D. Orzech
and James H. Sanjord
23. The Great Wisdom Mother and the Gcod Tradition
• Giacomella Orofino
24. Worship of Bell-Ears the Great Hero, a Jain Tantric Deity
• John E. Cart , _ ,
25. Secret Yantras and Erotic Display for Hindu Temples
• Michael D. Rcibe
26. The Six Rites of Magic • GuJ'T" Buh^cmmn
27. The Worship of Kali According to the Todala Tantra
n  Sanjukta Gupta
28. Ritual Manual for the Protective Fire Offering Devoted to Manjusrl,
Chuin Lineage • Richard K. Payne
29. The Purification of the Body • Gavin Flood
Yoga and Meditation
30. A Tantrici Meditation on Emptiness • Donald S. Lopez, Jr.
31. Japanese Tantra, the Tachikawa-r)'u, and Ryobu Shinto
• Bernard Faure
32. Assorted Topics of the Great Completeness by Dodrupchen III
• Anne Carolyn Klein, Oral commentary by Khetsun Sangpo Rinpoche
33. On the Seal of Sambhu: A Poem by Abhinavagupta
• Paul E. Muller-Ortega
34. Vajrayoga in the Kalacakra Tantra • John Newman
35. Jain Tantra: Divinatory and Meditative Practices in the Twelfth-
Century Yogasastra of Hemacandra • Olle Qvamstrom
36. Cheating Death • Michael Walter
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