Acknowledgement; Introduction; 1. More Pre-Tantric Sources of Tantrism: Skulls and Skull-Cups; 2. Charnel Ground Items, Zm[nikas, and the Question of the Magical Substratum of the Early Tantras; 3. Shamans and Bhkta Tntrikas: A Shared Genealogy?; 4. Female GaGe[a or Independent Deity? Tracing the Background of the Elephant-faced Goddess in Mediaeval Zaiva Tantric Traditions; 5. Crossing the Boundaries of Sex, Blood, and Magic in the Tantric Cult of Kmkhy; 6. Let us Now Invoke the Three Celestial Lights of Fire, Sun and Moon into Ourselves: Magic or Everyday Practice? Revising Existentiality for an Emic Understanding of Zr+vidy; 7. Narrative Folklore of Khy% from Tantra to Popular Beliefs: Supernatural Experiences at the Margins among Newar Communities in the Kathmandu Valley; 8. Magical Tantra in Bengal, Bali, and Java: From Pi[ca Tntrikas to Balians and Dukuns; 9. Tantrism and the Weretiger Lore of Burma, Thailand, and Cambodia
This book explores the cross- and trans-cultural dialectic between Tantra and intersecting magical and shamanic phenomena associated with vernacular religions across Monsoon Asia. It will be of interest to South Asian religions, Tantric traditions, and Asian and global folk religion, shamanism, and magic.
This book explores the cross- and trans-cultural dialectic between Tantra and intersecting magical and shamanic practices associated with vernacular religions across Monsoon Asia. With a chronological frame going from the mediaeval Indic period up to the present, a wide geographical framework, and through the dialogue between various disciplines, it presents a coherent enqulÓ'
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