Homa Variations (eBook, PDF)

The Study of Ritual Change across the Longue Dur?e
Redaktion: Payne, Richard K.; Witzel, Michael

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Produktbeschreibung

Found in many different religious cultures, the practice of making votive offerings into fire dates back to the earliest periods of human history. Throughout the tantric world, this kind of ritual offering practice is known as the homa. With roots in Vedic and Zoroastrian rituals, the tantric homa was formed in early medieval India. Since that time tantric Buddhist practitioners transmitted it to East and Central Asia, and more recently to Europe and the Americas. Today, Hindu forms of the homa are being practiced outside of India as well. Despite this historical and cultural range, the homa retains an identifiable unity of symbolism and ritual form. Homa Variations is the first volume to provide a series of detailed studies of a variety of homa forms. This collection of essays provides an understanding of the history of the homa from its inception up to its use in the present. The book also covers homa practice throughout a wide range of religious cultures, from India and Nepal to Tibet, China, and Japan. The theoretical focus of the collection is the study of ritual change over long periods of time, and across the boundaries of religious cultures. The identifiable unity of the homa allows for an almost unique opportunity to examine ritual change with such a broad perspective.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199351596
• Artikelnr.: 43973537

Autorenporträt

Richard K. Payne is Dean and Yehan Numata Professor of Japanese Buddhist Studies at the Institute of Buddhist Studies, Berkeley. Michael Witzel is Wales Professor of Sanskrit at Harvard University.

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface
* Acknowledgments
* Contributors
* Introduction, Richard K. Payne
* Symbolic and Comparative Studies
* 1. The Ritual Interplay of Fire and Water in Hindu and Buddhist
Tantras, Holly Grether
* 2. Buddhist Permutations and Symbolism of Fire, Tadeusz Skorupski
* 3. The Structure of Japanese Buddhist Homa, Musashi Tachikawa
* Textual Studies
* 4. The Vedic Homa and the Standardization of Hindu Puja, Timothy
Lubin
* 5. Oblation, Non-conception, and Body-Systems of Psychosomatic
Fire-oblation in Esoteric Buddhism in Medieval South Asia, Tsunehiko
Sugiki
* 6. The Three Types of Fire Sacrifice According to Kanha's
Sricakrasamvara-homavidhi, David B. Gray
* 7. Fire Rituals by the Queen of Siddhas: The
Aparimitayur-homa-vidhi-nama in the Tengyur, Georgios T. Halkias
* 8. Homa Rituals in the Indian Kalacakratantra Tradition, Vesna A.
Wallace
* 9. Ritual Subjects: Homa in Chinese Translations and Manuals from the
Sixth through Eighth Centuries, Charles D. Orzech
* Descriptive Studies
* 10. Newar Buddhist Homa Ritual Traditions, Todd Lewis and Naresh
Bajracarya
* 11. The Navaratra Homa: Liver, Enchantment, and Engendering the
Divine "Sakti-s", Nawaraj Chaulagain
* 12. Fire on the Mountain: The Shugendo Saito Goma, Richard K. Payne
* 13. Agnihotra Rituals in Nepal, Michael Witzel
* Index