Tantric Buddhist Practice in India

Vilāsavajra’s commentary on the Mañjuśrī-nāmasaṃgīti

Anthony Tribe (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

432 Seiten

2019
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-87707-1 (ISBN)

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Using a commentary on the influential text, the Mañjuśrī-nāmasaṃgīti, ‘The Chanting of the Names of Mañjuśrī’, this book deals with Buddhist tantric meditation practice and its doctrinal context in early-medieval India. The commentary was written by the 8th-9th century Indian tantric scholar Vilāsavajra, and the book contains a translation of the first five chapters. The translation is extensively annotated, and accompanied by introductions as well as a critical edition of the Sanskrit text based on eight Sanskrit manuscripts and two blockprint editions of the commentary’s Tibetan translation.

The commentary interprets its root text within an elaborate framework of tantric visualisation and meditation that is based on an expanded form of the Buddhist Yoga Tantra mandala, the Vajradhātu-maṇḍala. At its heart is the figure of Mañjuśrī, no longer the familiar bodhisattva of wisdom, but now the embodiment of the awakened non-dual gnosis that underlies all Buddhas as well their activity in the cosmos.

The book contributes to our understanding of the history of Indian tantric Buddhism in a period of significant change and innovation. With its extensively annotated translation and lengthy introductions the book is designed to appeal not only to professional scholars and research students but also to contemporary Buddhists.

Anthony Tribe is an independent scholar with a research specialization in the history and development of tantric Buddhism in India. He is the co-author of Buddhist Thought: A Complete Introduction to the Indian Tradition (2012), also published by Routledge.

Part 1: Introductions

Overview

1. Contexts

2. Vilâsavajra: locating the NMAA’s author

3. The Nâmasaṃgîti

4. Vilâsavajra’s NMAA: overviews and remarks

5. The NMAA’s maṇḍala in Himalayan Art

Part 2: Vilâsavajra’s Nâmamantrârthâvalokinî:
an annotated translation of chapters 1–5

Conventions in the translation

Chapter 1: On ‘The Request for Instruction’

Chapter 2: On ‘The Reply’

Chapter 3: On ‘The Survey of the Six Families’

Chapter 4: On ‘The Method of Awakening According to the Mâyâjâla’

Chapter 5: On ‘The Vajradhâtu-Mahâmaṇḍala of Bodhicittavajra’ Part III: Sanskrit Edition

Materials and Methods

1. Sigla

2. Manuscripts

3. Method of Editing

4. Stemma Codicum

5. The Tibetan Translation of the NMAA

Critical Edition of Vilâsavajra’s Nâmamantrârthâvalokinî:
Chapters 1–5

Adhikâra 1

Adhikâra 2

Adhikâra 3

Adhikâra 4

Adhikâra 5

Textual notes

Insignificant variants

Textual collation to establish the stemma codicum Appendices

Appendix 1. Works and authors cited in the NMAA

Appendix 2. Saṃvara, Cakrasaṃvara and Ṣaṭprajñânaya-
saṃvara citations

Appendix 3. NMAA colophons

Appendix 4. NMAA manuscripts:

Erscheinungsdatum	16.12.2019
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Studies in Tantric Traditions
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus
ISBN-10	0-367-87707-4 / 0367877074
ISBN-13	978-0-367-87707-1 / 9780367877071
Zustand	Neuware