On Supreme Bliss: A Study of the History and Interpretation of the Cakrasaṃvara Tantra
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− | 3. Competing Discourses in Theory and Practice 152 | + | *{{i|3. Competing Discourses in Theory and Practice|152}} |
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− | 1. Hegemonic and Counter-Hegemonic Ideologies 153 | + | ***{{i|1. Hegemonic and Counter-Hegemonic Ideologies|153}} |
− | 2. Myth, Counter-myth and Ritual | + | ***{{i|2. Myth, Counter-myth and Ritual|161}} |
− | 3. On Dissent, Protest and Counter-Culture: Resistance or Reproduction? 178 | + | ***{{i|3. On Dissent, Protest and Counter-Culture: Resistance or<br> Reproduction?|178}} |
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− | 2. Renunciation and Liminality | + | ***2. Renunciation and Liminality |
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− | 3. Cosmic Mastery: Visions of Authority Within and Beyond the World | + | **3. Cosmic Mastery: Visions of Authority Within and Beyond the World |
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− | 2. The Collapse of Time and Space in the | + | ***{{i|2. The Collapse of Time and Space in the Maṇḍala|250}} |
− | 3. Mastery in and of the World | + | ***3. Mastery in and of the World |
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− | 6. The | + | *{{i|4. Revelation and Taxonomy: Categorizing Tantric Literature|293}} |
− | 1. The Texts of the Cakrasamvara Tantra | + | **1. Modes of Tantric Discourse |
− | 1. Description of Texts | + | ***{{i|1. Primary Revelation|299}} |
− | 2. Survey of Contents 438 | + | ***{{i|2. Primary Exegesis|303}} |
− | 2. A Geneology of the | + | ***{{i|3. Secondary Revelation|309}} |
− | 1. Buddhist Sources 446 | + | ***{{i|4. Secondary Exegesis|313}} |
− | 2. Hindu Sources 464 | + | **2. Tantric Doxography |
− | 3. Heruka | + | ***{{i|1. Compilations|314}} |
− | 1. The Origin of Heruka 473 | + | ***{{i|2. Classification Schemes|319}} |
− | 2. The Purification of Heruka 496 | + | **{{i|3. Tantric Taxonomy and Early Medieval Indian Society|348}} |
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− | Bibliography: Secondary Sources 525 | + | *5. Tantric Historiography |
− | Appendix A: An Edition of the | + | **{{i|1. Traditional Histories|364}} |
− | Appendix B: A Translation of the Cakrasrupvara TantTai Chapters One to Four 614 | + | **{{i|2. Modem Chronologies|389}} |
− | Appendix C: Tsongkhapa's Total Illumination of the Hidden Meaning, Ch. 1-4 622 | + | |
− | Appendix D: | + | *6. The Cakrasaṃvara Tantra and the Origins of Heruka |
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+ | **2. A Geneology of the Cakrasaṃvara Tantra | ||
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+ | *{{i|Appendix A: An Edition of the Cakrasaṃvara Tantra, Chapters One to Four|588}} | ||
+ | *{{i|Appendix B: A Translation of the Cakrasrupvara TantTai Chapters One to<br> Four|614}} | ||
+ | *{{i|Appendix C: Tsongkhapa's ''Total Illumination of the Hidden Meaning'', Ch. 1-4|622}} | ||
+ | *{{i|Appendix D: Sumatikīrti's ''Laghusaṃvaratantrapaṭalābhisandhi''|760}} | ||
+ | *{{i|Appendix E: Cakrasamvara Lineage Lists|765}} | ||
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Abstract
This thesis explores the development of an important Indian Buddhist scripture. the Cakrasaṃvara Tantra, and the tradition of exegesis and practice based upon it. It consists of an edition and translation of the first four chapters of the Cakrasaṃvara Tantra, as well as a translation of the corresponding portion of Tsongkhapa's Total Illumination of the Hidden Meaning, a Tibetan commentary on this scripture. These texts are contextualized via efforts to define "Tantric Buddhism" as it is understood by the tradition itself, and via explorations of both the intellectual and socio-historical contexts within which Tantric Buddhism developed, and the ways in which different subtraditions within it were elaborated and categorized.
It is argued that a common element of Tantric traditions is their resistance to the hegemonic ideology of caste. An exploration of this ideology and Buddhist resistance to it is undertaken. Tantric discourse was deployed as a form of resistance against caste ideology, but also constituted a counter ideology, which centered around the figure of the guru as a nexus of power and authority, and articulated in the model of the maṇḍala.
The Cakrasaṃvara Tantra, is notable for the strong presence of "non-Buddhist elements." The Cakrasaṃvara Tantra, is a composite text drawing from diverse sources, and while it probably reached its final form in a Buddhist monastic context, there is significant textual evidence suggesting that it was the product of a non-monastic, renunciant milieu in which sectarian identification was not particularly relevant. The Cakrasaṃvara Tantra, is, in Levi Strauss' terms, a bricolage. It provides a particularly striking example of the processes of adaptation and reinterpretation which have continually led to the development of religious traditions. The Cakrasaṃvara's identification as a Buddhist tradition was the result of the efforts of commentators in India who constructed it as such, and by Tibetan commentators, who completed this process of adaptation.
Citation | Gray, David Barton. "On Supreme Bliss: A Study of the History and Interpretation of the Cakrasaṃvara Tantra." PhD diss., Columbia University, 2001. |
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