Secret Signs of Heroines and Heroes - Sugiki, Tsunehiko
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Buddhist tantras in early medieval India and Nepal include many discourses on "secret signs" (chom¿, mudr¿, and equivalents), which a male practitioner and his female partner, or a male or female practitioner alone, use for various purposes such as communicating with each other to perform tantric practices in a ritual assembly (gäacakra, "the circle of the assembly"). The concept of secret signs is one of the key components of tantric culture, also found in ¿aiva tantras. This monograph presents a critical edition of the Sanskrit texts of the chapters on secret signs in two Buddhist tantras,…mehr

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Buddhist tantras in early medieval India and Nepal include many discourses on "secret signs" (chom¿, mudr¿, and equivalents), which a male practitioner and his female partner, or a male or female practitioner alone, use for various purposes such as communicating with each other to perform tantric practices in a ritual assembly (gäacakra, "the circle of the assembly"). The concept of secret signs is one of the key components of tantric culture, also found in ¿aiva tantras. This monograph presents a critical edition of the Sanskrit texts of the chapters on secret signs in two Buddhist tantras, ¿¿k¿r¿ava ("Ocean of ¿¿kas," around the early twelfth century) and Abhidh¿nottara ("Continuation of the Discourse," around the tenth century), along with their English translation and annotations; it analyzes the discourses of secret signs presented in the Buddhist Sävara and other related traditions to elucidate the significance of this teaching in the ¿¿k¿r¿ava. It contains examinations of the discourses of various topics, such as the hand and body gestures, code language, classifications and features of yogin¿s, hand worship (hastap¿j¿), inner channels (n¿¿¿), the rotation (säkr¿nti) of yogin¿s, and the yoga of death (utkr¿ntiyoga). In the ¿¿k¿r¿ava, many of these discourses are reorganized to work within the framework of secret signs. In ¿aiva and Buddhist tantras, secret signs were originally taught as a means (gestures and code language) for men and women to recognize and communicate with each other. In the ¿¿k¿r¿ava, secret signs are not only such a means but have a much broader form and function. Furthermore, this monograph discusses the method of editing old manuscripts of Buddhist tantras that contain many esoteric expressions and grammatical irregularities. Its appendices explain the structure of all chapters of the ¿¿k¿r¿ava, which is essential to understanding their contents.
Autorenporträt
Tsunehiko Sugiki is a Professor in the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Hiroshima University. He holds a PhD in Religious Studies from the University of Tokyo (October 2000). His specialization is the philology of South Asian Buddhism (Buddhist Tantrism and Buddhist Ethics in particular) and religious studies. His publications include "Oblation, Non-conception, and Body: Systems of Psychosomatic Fire Oblation in Esoteric Buddhism in Medieval South Asia" (in Homa Variations: The Study of Ritual Change across the Longue durée, edited by Richard K. Payne and Michael Witzel, 2016, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 167-13); "Warriors Who Do Not Kill in War: A Buddhist Interpretation of the Warrior's Role in Relation to the Precept against Killing" (Religions 11 (10) (2020): 530 (1-20)); The Ocean of Heroes: Critical Edition, Translation, and Analysis of the ¿¿k¿r¿ava, Chapter 15, and Jayasena's Meditation Manual (Basel: MDPI); and "On the Chronology of the Buddhist Tantras" (in The Oxford Handbook of Tantric Studies, edited by Richard K. Payne and Glen Hayes, 2022, Oxford: Oxford University Press, C32.S1-C32.S33).