Preface – vii

Introduction – ix

ALEXIS SANDERSON: How public was Śaivism? – 1

Tantric Identities

SHAMAN HATLEY: Sisters and consorts, adepts and goddesses: Representations of women in the Brahmayāmala – 49

CSABA KISS: The Bhasmāṅkura in Śaiva texts – 83

ROBERT LEACH: Renegotiating ritual identities: Blurred boundaries between Pāñcarātra ritual communities in South India – 107

KLAUS-DIETER MATHES: *Sahajavajra’s integration of Tantra into mainstream Buddhism: An analysis of his *Tattvadaśakaṭīkā and *Sthitisamāsa – 137

CHRISTIAN FERSTL: Bāṇa’s literary representation of a South Indian Śaivite – 171

Tantric Ritual Communities

JUDIT TÖRZSÖK: Whose dharma? Śaiva and Śākta community rules and Dharmaśāstric prescriptions – 205

ELLEN GOUGH: Tantric ritual components in the initiation of a Digambara Jain – 233

PÉTER-DÁNIEL SZÁNTÓ: Minor Vajrayāna texts V: The Gaṇacakravidhi attributed to Ratnākaraśānti – 275

RYUGEN TANEMURA: The recipient of the Tantric Buddhist funeral – 315
 

Tantric Communities in the Public Sphere

MARION RASTELLI: Narratives as a medium for appealing to the royal court: A look into the Ahirbudhnyasaṃhitā – 335

FRANCESCO BIANCHINI: In case of emergency: Addressing rulers in the Ahirbudhnyasaṃhitā – 363

DOMINIC GOODALL: Damanotsava: On love in spring on what Jñānaśambhu wrote, and on the spread of public festivals into the Mantramārga – 385

GUDRUN BÜHNEMANN: Hanumān worship under the kings of the late Malla period in Nepal – 425

Beyond Tantric Communities: the Interface with Lay Communities

NINA MIRNIG: “Rudras on Earth” on the eve of the Tantric Age: The Śivadharmaśāstra and the making of Śaiva lay and initiatory communities – 471

PETER BISSCHOP: Inclusivism revisited: The worship of other gods in the Śivadharmaśāstra, the Skandapurāṇa, and the Niśvāsamukha – 511

S.A.S. SARMA: Mātṛtantra texts of South India with special reference to the worship of Rurujit in Kerala and to three different communities associated with this worship – 539

GERGELY HIDAS: Further Mahāpratisarā fragments from Gilgit – 571