{"product_id":"making-sense-of-tantric-buddhism-9780231162418","title":"Making Sense of Tantric Buddhism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMaking Sense of Tantric Buddhism is a major contribution to our understanding of Indian esoteric (or Tantric) Buddhism. Christian K. Wedemeyer writes with verve, humor, and-most crucially-remarkable clarity, managing to explain difficult texts and ideas with great lucidity. -- Roger R. Jackson, Carleton College An important new work in Buddhology Choice Highly Recommended. -- David Templeman South Asia Wedemeyer not only provides an advanced introduction, but also makes the reader question the assumptions (and almost everyone has assumptions about Tantra!) they bring to and expect of the study of Tantric Buddhism. -- Justin Thomas McDaniel Religious Studies Review A clear work that engages a fresh methodology in order to articulate a new theory of Buddhist antinomianism, offering thereby a novel way to 'make sense' of tantric Buddhism. Journal of Religion [An] important and useful contribution to the study of Tantric Buddhism in India. -- Sumit Guha H-Asia\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Figures and Tables Preface and Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction: Making Sense in and of the Human Sciences Part 1: Historiography 1. Origins \tUnderstanding Tantric Buddhism through its Origins \tThe Quest for Origins as Method in the History of Religions 2. Narrating Tantric Buddhism \tThe Poetics of Historiography \tThe Tropology of Esoteric Buddhism \tHistorical Narrative and Ideological Implication 3. Going Native: Traditional Historiography of Esoteric Buddhism \tHistoriography and Cosmology in Exoteric Buddhism \tHistoriography and Cosmology in Esoteric Buddhism \tObservations on Structure Part 2: Interpretation 4. The Semiology of Transgression \tThe Literal and the Figurative in Tantric Hermeneutics \tConnotative Semiotics as Exegetical Method \tConnotative Semiotics in Tantric Ritual \tConnotative Semiotics in Tantric Scripture 5. \"The Practice\" of Indian Esoteric Buddhism \tTerms of Art as an Interpretative Problem \tInterpreting the Practice Observance I: Irony and Inversion \tInterpreting the Practice Observance II: Prerequisites and Temporal Frame \tInterpreting the Practice Observance III: ?aiva Parallels 6. Tantric Buddhist Transgression in Context \tThe Social Location of Tantric Buddhism as an Interpretative Problem \tContriving Marginality \tThe Common Repertoire of Buddhist Professionals \t\"Carnivalesque\" or \"Rituals of Rebellion\"? \tBut...Did They Really Do It?! Conclusion: No Two \"Ways\" About It Appendix I: The Indrabhuti Story According to Pad ma dkar po (ca. 1575) Appendix II: Chapter Nine of the Buddhakapala Tantra, \"The Practice\" (Caryapatala) Notes Bibliography Index","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400269799767,"sku":"9780231162418","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231162418.jpg?v=1730470242","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/making-sense-of-tantric-buddhism-9780231162418","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}