List of Illustrations
Preface
Katherine Anne Harper
Introduction
Robert L. Brown
PART I: Overviews
1. What Do We Mean by Tantrism?
André Padoux
2. Early Evidence for Tantric Religion
David N. Lorenzen
PART II: The History and Development of Tantra
3. Historical and Iconographic Aspects of Sakta Tantrism
M. C. Joshi
4. Auspicious Fragments and Uncertain Wisdom: The Roots of Srividya Sakta Tantrism in South India
Douglas Renfrew Brooks
5. The Structural Interplay of Tantra, Vedanta, and Bhakti: Nondualist Commentary on the Goddess
Thomas B. Coburn
PART III: The Art History and Archaeology of Tantra
6. The Spinal Serpent
Thomas McEvilley
7. The Warring Saktis: A Paradigm for Gupta Conquests
Katherine Anne Harper
8. Early Evidence of the Pancaratra Agama
Dennis Hudson
PART IV: The Vedas and Tantra
9. Imagery of the Self from Veda to Tantra
Teun Goudriaan
10. Tongues of Flame: Homologies in the Tantric Homa
Richard K. Payne
PART V: The Texts and Tantra
11. Becoming Bhairava: Meditative Vision in Abhinavagupta's Paratrisika-laghuvrtti
Paul E. Muller-Ortega
12. Tantric Incantation in the Devi Purana: The Padamala Mantra Vidya
Lina Gupta
List of Contributors
Glossary
Index