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Tantric traditions in both Buddhism and Hinduism are thriving
throughout Asia and in Asian diasporic communities around the
world, yet they have been largely ignored by Western scholars until
now. This collection of original essays fills this gap by examining
the ways in which Tantric Buddhist traditions have changed over
time and distance as they have spread across cultural boundaries in
Asia. The book is divided into three sections dedicated to South
Asia, Central Asia, and East and Southeast Asia. The essays cover
such topics as the changing ideal of masculinity in Buddhist
literature, the controversy triggered by the transmission of the
Indian Buddhist deity Heruka to Tibet in the 10th century, and the
evolution of a Chinese Buddhist Tantric tradition in the form of
the True Buddha School. The book as a whole addresses complex and
contested categories in the field of religious studies, including
the concept of syncretism and the various ways that the change and
transformation of religious traditions can be described and
articulated. The authors, leading scholars in Tantric studies, draw
on a wide array of methodologies from the fields of history,
anthropology, art history, and sociology. Tantric Traditions in
Transmission and Translation is groundbreaking in its attempt to
look past religious, linguistic, and cultural boundaries.
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