Tantric Revisionings: New Understandings of Tibetan Buddhism and Indian Religion

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Part I Starting Points -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Tibet as a Stateless Society and Some Islamic Paralleis -- Part II Historical -- 3. The Dissenting Tradition of Indian Tantra and its Partial Hegemonisation in Tibet -- 4. Tibetan Tantra as a Form of Shamanism: Some Reflections on the Vajrayāna and its Sharnanic Origins -- 5. Buddhism and the State in Eighth Century Tibet -- 6. Shamanism, Bon and Tibetan Religion -- 7. The Indus Valley Civilisation and Early Tibet -- 8. Ge-sar of gLing: The Origins and Meanings of the East Tibetan Epic -- Part III Religion in Contemporary Asia -- 9. Tibet and the Southeast Asian Highlands: Rethinking the Intellectual Context of Tibetan Studies -- 10. The Vajrayāna in the Context of Himalayan Folk Religion -- 11. The Effectiveness of Goddesses, or, How Ritual Works -- 12. Women, Goddesses and Auspiciousness in South Asia -- Part IV Buddhism and Other Western Religions -- 13. Tibetan Buddhism as a World Religion: Global Networking and its Consequences -- 14. The Westernisation of Tibetan Buddhism -- 15. The Attractions of Tantra: Two Historical Moments -- Index