David Gordon White
Biographic Data
| ID | 3768181 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Gordon White |
| GIVEN NAMES | David Gordon |
| FAMILY NAME | White |
| SIGNATURE | WHITE D G |
| AFFILIATIONS | 1The Divinity School, The University of Chicago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Three Shades of Tantric Yoga: Chapter 20 of the Netra Tantra
What is yoga? According to popular and scholarly consensus, virtually all of India’s yoga systems are based on the Yoga Sūtras of Patañjali. Compiled in the ninth century, at the height of the Yoga Sūtras’s popularity, the Netra Tantra offers a vision of yoga that differs from that work in every respect. In the presentation of its “threefold yoga” (trividha yoga) system, the Netra’s twentieth chapter describes a battery of techniques employed by …
Rituals of Initiation and Consecration in Premodern Japan: Power and Legitimacy in Kingship, Religion, and the Arts
In premodern Japan, legitimization of power and knowledge in various contexts was sanctioned by consecration rituals ( kanjō ) of Buddhist origin. This is the first book to address in a comprehensive way the multiple forms and aspects of these rituals also in relation to other Asian contexts. The multidisciplinary chapters in the book address the origins of these rituals in ancient Persia and India and their developments in China and Tibet, befor…
Brahmayamalatantra or Picumata, vol. 1: Chapters 1–2, 39–40, & 83: Revelation, Ritual, and Material Culture in an Early Saiva Tantra. By Shaman Hatley
The Brahmayāmalatantra or Picumata, vol. 1: Chapters 1–2, 39–40, & 83: Revelation, Ritual, and Material Culture in an Early Śaiva Tantra. By Shaman Hatley. Collection Indologie, vol. 133; Early Tantra Series, vol. 5. Pondicherry: institut français de pondiChéry/éCole française d’extrêMe-orient/asien-afrika-institut, universität haMburg, 2018. Pp. xiv + 695. Rs 1600
Variations on the Indo-European “Fire and Water” Mytheme in Three Alchemical Accounts
Five medieval Sanskrit-language descriptions of a fabulous technique for extracting mercury from the “wells” in which it naturally resides are shown to be remarkably similar to accounts preserved in Chinese and Syriac. Whereas the Sanskrit and Chinese versions date from no earlier than the thirteenth century C.E., the Syriac version dates from no later than the tenth century. The present article first compares and contrasts these three alchemical…
Monastic Wanderers: Nāth Yogī Ascetics in Modern South Asia. By Véronique Bouillier
Monastic Wanderers: Nāth Yogī Ascetics in Modern South Asia. By Véronique Bouillier. New Delhi: Manohar, 2017; London: Routledge, 2018. Pp. 351. Rs. 1395, £105.00; eBook £35.99
Tantra in Practice
Brahmayamalatantra or Picumata, vol. II: The Religious Observances and Sexual Rituals of the Tantric Practitioner: Chapters 3, 21, and 45. A Critical Edition and Annotated Translation. By Csaba Kiss
The Brahmayāmalatantra or Picumata, vol. II: The Religious Observances and Sexual Rituals of the Tantric Practitioner: Chapters 3, 21, and 45. A Critical Edition and Annotated Translation. By Csaba Kiss. Collection Indologie, vol. 130, Early Tantra Series, vol. 3. Pondicherry: Institut Français de Pondichéry/eÉcole Française d’extrême-Orient; Hamburg: Asien-Afrika-Institut, Universität Hamburg, 2015. Pp. 373. €32, Rs. 750
Ashes to Nectar: Death and Regeneration among the Rasa Siddhas and Nåth Siddhas
Yoga in Practice
Franco, Eli, and Dagmar Eigner, Yogic Perception, Meditation and Altered States of Consciousness
Sinister Yogis
Open̓ and ̒Closed̓ Models of the Human Body in Indian Medical and Yogic Traditions
Most Indian and western commentators and scholars, following the Yoga Sūtras of Patañjali ( c . third century CE), have assumed the Hindu yogic body to be a closed, self-contained system. However, a significant volume of data from a variety of sources—ranging from the classical Upaniṣads down through the Tantras (and including passages from the Yoga Sūtras themselves)—indicate that an 'open' model of the yogic body has also been operative in Hind…
Digging Wells While Houses Burn? Writing Histories of Hinduism in a Time of Identity Politics
Over the past fifty years, a number of approaches to the recovery of the multiple pasts of Hinduism have held the field. these include that of the discipline of History of religions as it is constituted in north america as well as those of the Hindu nationalists, the colonial and post-colonial historians, and the subaltern studies school. None of these approaches have proven satisfactory because, for methodological or ideological reasons, none ha…
A Journey in the World of the Tantras
This book is a collection of essays which document in their own way the author's personal journey through parts of Shaiva and Vaisnava Tantras. The book includes chapters on self awareness, own being and egoity, Abhavada, the doctrine of non being, and the Samvitprakasha, the inner pilgrimage of the Tantras
Kiss of the yoginī: "Tantric Sex" in its South Asian contexts
With Kiss of the Yogini, David Gordon White sweeps away centuries of misunderstandings and misrepresentations, returning to original texts, images, and ritual practices to reconstruct the history of South Asian Tantra from the medieval period to the present day. Kiss of the Yogini contains White's own translations from over a dozen Tantras that have never before been translated into any European language. It will prove to be the definitive work f…
Tantra in Practice
Theorizing Myth: Narrative, Ideology, and Scholarship. Bruce Lincoln
Ascètes et rois: Un monastère de Kānphaṭa Yogis au Népal. Véronique Bouillier
The Singular Beast: Jews, Christians, and the Pig. Claudine Fabre-Vassas
Transformations in the Art of Love: Kāmakalā Practices in Hindu Tantric and Kaula Traditions
Mountains of wisdom: On the interface between Siddha and Vidyādhara cults and the Siddha orders in medieval India
The Alchemical Body: Siddha Traditions in Medieval India
The Rise of the Goddess in the Hindu Tradition
The Mystery of Numbers. Annemarie Schimmel
The Hungry God: Hindu Tales of Filicide and Devotion. David Shulman
The Alchemical Body: Siddha Traditions in Medieval India
Digging Wells While Houses Burn? Writing Histories of Hinduism in a Time of Identity Politics
Over the past fifty years, a number of approaches to the recovery of the multiple pasts of Hinduism have held the field. these include that of the discipline of History of religions as it is constituted in north america as well as those of the Hindu nationalists, the colonial and post-colonial historians, and the subaltern studies school. None of these approaches have proven satisfactory because, for methodological or ideological reasons, none ha…
Transformations in the Art of Love: Kāmakalā Practices in Hindu Tantric and Kaula Traditions
Mountains of wisdom: On the interface between Siddha and Vidyādhara cults and the Siddha orders in medieval India
Dakkhiṇa" and "Agnicayana: An Extended Application of Paul Mus's Typology
Why Gurus Are Heavy
In his renowned essay, "Religion as a cultural system,"' Clifford Geertz speaks of symbols as being unique to humans in the sense that, in any given culture, they may serve at once as models of and models for both a meaningful understanding (a world view) of reality and a pattern of thought and behavior (an ethos), which mutually reinforce one another.Drawing on random existence, a culture recognizes, aesthetically, in given social, linguistic, n…
Why Gurus Are Heavy
In his renowned essay, "Religion as a cultural system,"' Clifford Geertz speaks of symbols as being unique to humans in the sense that, in any given culture, they may serve at once as models of and models for both a meaningful understanding (a world view) of reality and a pattern of thought and behavior (an ethos), which mutually reinforce one another.Drawing on random existence, a culture recognizes, aesthetically, in given social, linguistic, n…
Dakkhiṇa" and "Agnicayana: An Extended Application of Paul Mus's Typology
Śunahśepa Unbound
The principal themes of this account served as the grounds for a socio-religious ideology that continued to develop throughout the history of brahmanic literature. This ideology established an opposition between the center - authority, sacrifice and cows of the brahmin Vasistha; and the periphery - antinomian power and asceticism of the non-brahmin Viśvāmitra, and haunt of marginals and their dogs. This ideology breaks down in late variants of th…
Dogs Die
Myths of the Dog-Man
Histories de poteaux: Variations védiques autour de la Déesse hindoue . Madeleine Biardeau La caducée et la symbolique dravidienne indo-mediteranéenne de l'arbre, de la pierre, du serpent et de la dée…
Myths of the Dog-Man
Gustave Liétard et Palmyr Cordier: Travaux sur l'histoire de la médecine indienne
The Hungry God: Hindu Tales of Filicide and Devotion. David Shulman
The Mystery of Numbers. Annemarie Schimmel
The Alchemical Body: Siddha Traditions in Medieval India
The Rise of the Goddess in the Hindu Tradition
Mountains of wisdom: On the interface between Siddha and Vidyādhara cults and the Siddha orders in medieval India
Transformations in the Art of Love: Kāmakalā Practices in Hindu Tantric and Kaula Traditions
The Singular Beast: Jews, Christians, and the Pig. Claudine Fabre-Vassas
Ascètes et rois: Un monastère de Kānphaṭa Yogis au Népal. Véronique Bouillier
Theorizing Myth: Narrative, Ideology, and Scholarship. Bruce Lincoln
Kiss of the yoginī: "Tantric Sex" in its South Asian contexts
With Kiss of the Yogini, David Gordon White sweeps away centuries of misunderstandings and misrepresentations, returning to original texts, images, and ritual practices to reconstruct the history of South Asian Tantra from the medieval period to the present day. Kiss of the Yogini contains White's own translations from over a dozen Tantras that have never before been translated into any European language. It will prove to be the definitive work f…
Tantra in Practice
A Journey in the World of the Tantras
This book is a collection of essays which document in their own way the author's personal journey through parts of Shaiva and Vaisnava Tantras. The book includes chapters on self awareness, own being and egoity, Abhavada, the doctrine of non being, and the Samvitprakasha, the inner pilgrimage of the Tantras
Open̓ and ̒Closed̓ Models of the Human Body in Indian Medical and Yogic Traditions
Most Indian and western commentators and scholars, following the Yoga Sūtras of Patañjali ( c . third century CE), have assumed the Hindu yogic body to be a closed, self-contained system. However, a significant volume of data from a variety of sources—ranging from the classical Upaniṣads down through the Tantras (and including passages from the Yoga Sūtras themselves)—indicate that an 'open' model of the yogic body has also been operative in Hind…
Digging Wells While Houses Burn? Writing Histories of Hinduism in a Time of Identity Politics
Over the past fifty years, a number of approaches to the recovery of the multiple pasts of Hinduism have held the field. these include that of the discipline of History of religions as it is constituted in north america as well as those of the Hindu nationalists, the colonial and post-colonial historians, and the subaltern studies school. None of these approaches have proven satisfactory because, for methodological or ideological reasons, none ha…
Sinister Yogis
Yoga in Practice
Franco, Eli, and Dagmar Eigner, Yogic Perception, Meditation and Altered States of Consciousness
Art (19 works) · Philosophy (17 works) · History (16 works) · Indian and Buddhist Studies (14 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Literature (10 works) · Religious studies (10 works) · Theology (10 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (6 works)