Making Sense of Tantric Buddhism by Wedemeyer, Christian K. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Half title Series Page Title Copyright Dedication Epigraph Contents List of Figures and Tables Preface and Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction: Making Sense in and of the Human Sciences Part I: Historiography

1. Origins, Religion, and the Origins of Tantrism

2. Narrating Tantric Buddhism

The Poetics of Historiography Tantra as End: The Decline and Fall of Indian Buddhism Tantra as Beginning: The Primordial Undercurrent Tantra as Middle: Medieval Esotericism Historical Narrative and Ideological Implication

3. Going Native: Traditional Historiography of Tantric Buddhism

Part II: Interpretation

4. The Semiology of Transgression

The Literal and the Figurative in Tantric Hermeneutics Connotative Semiotics as Exegetical Method Connotative Semiotics in Tantric Ritual Connotative Semiotics in Tantric Scripture

5. The Practice of Indian Tantric Buddhism

6. Tantric Buddhist Transgression in Context

The Social Location of Esoteric Buddhism as an Interpretative Problem Contriving Marginality The Common Repertoire of Buddhist Professionals Carnivalesque or Rituals of Rebellion? But … Did They Really Do It?!

Notes Bibliography Index