27. The Worship of Kali According to the Todala Tantra

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. PRINCETON READINGS IN RELIGIONS v
3. NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION vii
4. CONTENTS ix
5. CONTENTS BY TRADITION xiii
6. CONTENTS BY COUNTRY xv
7. CONTRIBUTORS xvii
8. INTRODUCTION Tantra in Practice: Mapping a Tradition 3
9. Gurus and Adepts
10. 1. The Tantric Guru 41
11. 2. King Kufiji's Banquet 52
12. 3. Interviews with a Tantric Kali Priest: Feeding Skulls in the Town of Sacrifice 72
13. 4. A Parody of the Kapalikas in the Mattavilasa 81
14. 5. A Trance Healing Session with Mataji 97
15. Kings and Priests
16. 6. The Consecration of the Monastic Compound at Mount Koya by Kûkai 119
17. 7. Praises of the Drunken Peacocks 131
18. 8. Precepts for an Emperor 146
19. Devotees and Deities
20. 9. Raising Snakes in Bengal: The Use of Tantric Imagery in Sâkta Poetry Contests 167
21. 10. The Wedding of Siva and the Goddess in the Kulâlikâmnâya 184
22. 11. An Advertised Secret: The Goddess Taleju and the King of Kathmandu 195
23. 12. Tantric Rites in Antal's Poetry 206
24. Traditions in Transition and Conflict
25. 13. The Jain Monk Jinapati Suri Gets the Better of a Nâth Yogi 231
26. 14. Longchenpa and the Possession of the Dakinis 239
27. 15.The Anonymous Agama Prakâsa: Preface to a Nineteenth-Century Gujarati Polemic 266
28. 16. Conversation between Guru Hasan Kabîruddîn and Jogï Kâniphâ: Tantra Revisited by the Isma'ili Preachers 285
29. Tantric Paths
30. 17. Emptiness and Dust: Zen Dharma Transmission Rituals 299
31. 18. The Necklace of Immortality: A Seventeenth-Century Vaisnava Sahajiyâ Text 308
32. 19. The Tibetan Practice of the Mantra Path According to Lce-sgom-pa 326
33. 20. The Ocean of the Heart: Selections from the Kulârnava Tantra 347
34. 21. Tantric Buddhism and Chinese Thought in East Asia 361
35. Rites and Techniques
36. 22. Worship of the Ladies of the Dipper 383
37. 23. The Great Wisdom Mother and the Gcod Tradition 396
38. 24. Worship of Bell-Ears the Great Hero, a Jain Tantric Deity 417
39. 25. Secret Yantras and Erotic Display for Hindu Temples 434
40. 26. The Six Rites of Magic 447
41. 27. The Worship of Kali According to the Todala Tantra 463
42. 28. Ritual Manual for the Protective Fire Offering Devoted to Manjusrï, Chuin Lineage 489
43. 29. The Purification of the Body 509
44. Yoga and Meditation
45. 30. A Tantric Meditation on Emptiness 523
46. 31. Japanese Tantra, the Tachikawa-ryu, and Ryôbu Shinto 543
47. 32. Assorted Topics of the Great Completeness by Dodrupchen III 557
48. 33. On the Seal of Sambhu: A Poem by Abhinavagupta 573
49. 34. Vajrayoga in the Kalacakra Tantra 587
50. 35. Jain Tantra: Divinatory and Meditative Practices in the Twelfth-Century Yogasâstra of Hemacandra 595
51. 36. Cheating Death 605
52. GLOSSARY OF FOREIGN TERMS 625
53. INDEX 635