Mandala of the Self

Embodiment, Practice, and Identity Construction in the Cakrasamvara Tradition

Datos Bibliográficos

ID7212970
AutoresDavid B Gray (Santa Clara University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2006
Volumen30
Número3
Páginas294-310
Fecha de publicación2006-08-21
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Religious History (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0022-4227 • E-ISSN: 1467-9809
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1467-9809.2006.00495.x
OpenAlexW2015246548
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5
Referencias citadas2

Tantric traditions have often been ignored by scholars studying Asian social history, in part because the structure of traditions, and hence their social impact, have been poorly understood. This paper seeks to remedy this lacuna by exploring in some depth a particular tradition, that centring around the Cakrasamvara Tantra, an Indian Buddhist scripture that became the basis of a popular practice tradition in Nepal and Tibet. Following Charles Taylor and the Comaroffs, I will argue that the Cakrasamvara practice tradition encourages a construction of self-identity based on a rather different set of assumptions than those common in the West, i.e., assumptions concerning the limits and constitution of the self. I will explore the nature of this considerably more expansive and fluid sense of self and its social and historical ramifications, both in the pre-modern and contemporary manifestations of this tradition

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Buddhism · Constitution · Epistemology · Expansive · Identity (music · Mandala · Meditation · Political science · Sociology · Tantra · Theology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · History · Indian and Buddhist Studies · Law · Philosophy · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies