During the early medieval period Tantric traditions - including Śaivism, the Vaiṣṇava Pāñcarātra, the Buddhist Mantrayāna, and Jaina Tantra – grew to become an integral part of the religious landscape of the early medieval Indic world, reaching across South, South-East and East Asia. Major scholarly advances in the past decades – notably the works of Alexis Sanderson – have demonstrated on the basis of textual and epigraphical sources by what means Tantric initiatory groups, which initially appear to have constituted a marginal phenomenon, quickly extended their reach towards the wider public and in some cases even succeeded in forging close ties with the ruling elite. Given the far-reaching impact of Tantrism, it becomes then difficult to define the range of what constitutes a “Tantric community”, from an emic as well as an etic point of view. This task is further complicated by the fact that the surviving Tantric textual sources are prescriptive in nature and rarely intentionally address questions of social relevance so that the social reality of how initiatory groups were organized on the ground and concretely interfaced with the wider community of non-initiates or with competing traditions during this period is still little understood. The papers presented at this symposium will explore the surviving textual sources with the aim of identifying and exploring topics that will help to recover aspects of the socio-religious environment within which these Tantric groups negotiated their position in society and conceptualised their visions of community. VISIONS OF COMMUNITY SFB – Spezialforschungsbereich Tantric Communities in Context: Sacred Secrets &Public Rituals Location: Institute for the Cultural & Intellectual History of Asia Apostelgasse 23, 1030 Vienna Underground Stop: U3 Kardinal-Nagl-Platz Contact & Information: Mail: [email protected] Tel.: +43 1 51581 / 6416 grafikdesign: dagmar Giesriegl http://www.ikga.oeaw.ac.at/Events/Tantric_Communities International Symposium 5th-7th February 2015 rGya-gar Paṇḍita and Mi-nyag King: Indian-Tangut relations between the 11-13th centuries Haoran Hou, Leipzig University, Germany Inclusivism revisited: The worship of other gods in the Śivadharma, the Skandapurāṇa and the Niśvāsamukha Peter Bisschop, Leiden University, The Netherlands Conversion, theft, and culture: On some potential explanations for scriptural flows and interactions between Tantric communities Paul Gerstmayr, University of Oxford, United Kingdom The Self as a community 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Representations of women in the Brahmayāmala Shaman Hatley, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada Mātṛtantra texts of South India with special reference to the worship of Rurujit in Kerala and to three different communities associated with this worship S.A.S. Sarma, École Française d’Extrême-Orient, Pondicherry, France A note on damanotsava (a spring rite of reparation) and on the twelfth-century Saiddhāntika ritual manual called the Jñānaratnāvalī Dominic Goodall, École Française d’ExtrêmeOrient, Paris, France 16:30 - 17:00 10:00 - 10:30 10:30 - 11:00 Csaba Kiss, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary Power, protection and politics: Hanumān worship in the late Malla period Gudrun Bühnemann, University of WisconsinMadison, U.S.A. The Tantric initiation of a Digambara monk Ellen Gough, Yale University, New Haven, U.S.A. 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break 11:30 - 12:00 11:30 - 12:00 12:00 - 12:30 The bhasmāṅkura, the offspring of a Śaiva ascetic and a Śūdra prostitute 12:00 - 12:30 Florinda De Simini, University of Naples »L‘Orientale«, Italy Christian Ferstl, University of Vienna, Austria Saturday 7th February 12:30 - 13:00 9:30 - 10:00 Klaus-Dieter Mathes, University of Vienna, Austria 12:45 - 14:00 Lunch Aspects of the cult of the book in the Śaiva and Vaiṣṇava Tantric traditions Friday 6th February Péter-Dániel Szántó, University of Oxford, United Kingdom Sahajavajra’s integration of Tantra into mainstream Buddhism: An analysis of his Tattvadaśakaṭīkā and Sthitisamuccaya Gergely Hidas, British Museum, London, United Kingdom Aśvaghoṣa’s and Bāṇa’s literary representations of Śaiva hermits Judit Törzsök, Charles-de-Gaulle University - Lille III, France 14:00 - 14:30 14:30 - 15:00 15:00 - 15:30 The King of Tantras as Obtained from the Sweat of the Goddess Further Mahāpratisarā fragments from Gilgit and aspects of the social settings of dhāraṇī literature Whose dharma? Śākta Tantric community rules (samayas) and dharmaśāstric prescriptions 14:30 - 15:00 Harunaga Isaacson, University of Hamburg, Germany 15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break 10:00 - 10:30 11:15 - 11:45 11:45 - 12:15 12:15 - 12:45 From ear to ear, from mouth to mouth: Glimpses of Indian Buddhist Tantric transmission Kenichi Kuranishi, Taisho University, Tokyo, Japan 15:00 - 15:30 Alexis Sanderson, University of Oxford, United Kingdom Ryugen Tanemura, Taisho University, Tokyo, Japan 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break Narratives as a medium for appealing to the royal court: A look into the Ahirbudhnyasaṃhitā Marion Rastelli, Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia, Vienna, Austria Rhetoric of a military cult: The case of the Ahirbudhnyasaṃhitā Francesco Bianchini, University of Vienna, Austria How to become an Ekāyana Robert Leach, University of Zurich, Switzerland 15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break 16:00 - 16:30 Keynote address: How public was the Śaiva Mantramārga? 16:00 - 16:30 Maria-Christina Lutter, University of Vienna, Austria 16:30 - 17:00 A short introduction to the “Visions of Community” project Quotations or re-quotations: Scholarly activities in the Buddhist monasteries 10:30 - 11:00 9:30 - 9:40 9:40 - 10:00 10:00 - 10:50 Vincent Eltschinger, Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia, Vienna, Austria 10:50 - 11:15 Coffee break 14:00 - 14:30 programme Welcoming On the recipient of the Buddhist Tantric funeral rite An ideal rule by an initiated Śaiva king described in a Kashmirian courtly poem Yuko Yokochi, Kyoto University, Japan Somdev Vasudeva, Kyoto University, Japan subject to change Tantric Communities in Context: Sacred Secrets & Public Rituals Thursday 5th February
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