SYMPOSIUM ON THE ROOTS OF TANTRA

[Harper, Katherine]

     THE ROOTS OF TANTRA, II
     
     A SYMPOSIUM PRESENTED BY THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SEMINAR ON SOUTH ASIA
     
     UCLA - DICKSON ART CENTER, ROOM 3260
     MARCH 11, 1995
     
     9:00  Coffee and Donuts
     9:20  Opening Remarks - Katherine Harper
     9:30  David Lorenzen, El Colegio de Mexico
           "Early Evidence for Tantric Ritual"
           Respondent: Katherine Harper
     10:30 Thomas Coburn, St. Lawrence University
           "The Structural Interplay of Tantra, Vedanta and
           Bhakti: Nondualist Commentary on the Goddess"
           Respondent: Robert Brown
     11:30 Lina Gupta, Glendale College
           "Tantric Rituals in the Devi Purana"
           Respondent: Christopher Chapple
     12:30 Lunch
     2:30  Paul Ortega Muller, Michigan State University
           "Becoming Bhairava: Meditative Vision in Abhinavagupta's
           The Short Gloss on the Para-Trisika-Laghuvritti"
           Respondent: Gerald Larson
     3:30  Douglas Renfrew Brooks, "Auspicious Fragments and Uncertain
           Wisdom: The Roots of Srividya Sakta in South India"
           Respondent: Barbara Holdrege