Iain Sinclair
Biographic Data
| ID | 3922748 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Iain Sinclair |
| GIVEN NAMES | Iain |
| FAMILY NAME | Sinclair |
| SIGNATURE | SINCLAIR I |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Queensland |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3613-4193 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Fauna Names in the Ḍākārṇava
The fifteenth chapter of the Ḍākārṇava, a late Buddhist tantra, describes an elaborate maṇḍala containing one hundred and eight kinds of fauna, among its other inhabitants. While most of these fauna names are known to derive from a tenth-century tantric treatise, the Laghutantraṭīkā, over two dozen names have not previously been identified with particular kinds of fauna. This study investigates the novel fauna names of the tantra in connection wi…
The Soteriologies of Buddhist Tantrism
Tantric Buddhist practices, often regarded as transgressive or liminal, diverge from the sedate ways of the monastic establishment and the bodhisattva ideal of selfless altruism. The reconciliation of these quite different paths to enlightenment is one of the landmark intellectual projects of late Buddhism. Tantrism was conceived as a way (naya) or vehicle (yāna) leading to awakening that could be followed alongside monastic or bodhisattva religi…
Statutes for Semi-monastics
The rise of a semi-monastic class, whose members eschew full monastic vows while remaining part of a monastic community, is one of the last developments in South Asian Buddhism. An important point of reference for this development is a little-studied handbook of regulations, the Pāpaparimocana or Emancipation from Sin, also called Mañjuśrīpārājikā. Here the semi-monastic is defined as practicing “half of that” which is the religion of the bhikṣu.…
The Creative South
This edited volume programmatically reconsiders the creative contribution of the littoral and insular regions of Maritime Asia to shaping new paradigms in the Buddhist and Hindu art and architecture of the mediaeval Asian world. Far from being a mere southern conduit for the maritime circulation of Indic religions, in the period from ca. the 7th to the 14th century those regions transformed across mainland and island polities the rituals, icons, …
Vajramahākāla and the śaivasaugata rulers of Dharmāśraya and Siṅhasāri
Impressive images of a ferocious deity holding a cleaver and skullcup emerged in precolonial Sumatra. The deity is depicted with a female partner on the sword Mandākinī, and as a monumental statue found at Dharmāśraya in the Sumatran highlands. These images are often said to represent (the Śivaite) Bhairava and king Ādityavarman (c. 1294–1374), but they have overt marks of Buddhist affiliation. It is shown here that they represent Vajramahākāla, …
Appendix A
Coronation and Liberation According to a Javanese Monk in China
War Magic
London Overground
Iain explores modern London through a day's hike around the London Overground route. The completion of the full circle of London Overground provides Iain with a new path to walk the shifting territory of the capital. With thirty-three stations and thirty-five miles to tramp - and inevitable and unforeseen detours and false steps - he embarks on a marathon circumnavigation at street level, tracking the necklace of garages, fish farms, bakeries, co…
War Magic and Just War in Indian Tantric Buddhism
Warfare was widespread in classical India. Although the Buddhists of India abhorred killing, they could not evade or ignore war altogether. From the seventh century to the thirteenth century, various types of war magic, together with justifications for their use, developed in tantric Buddhist communities. Defensive types of war magic adhered to pacifist ethics and aimed to avoid, halt, or disperse armies. Harmful war magic was applied in the cont…
Introduction
Michael Allen is a pioneering figure in the study of the Newars, the indigenous people of Nepal's Kathmandu Valley. Allen carried out his main fieldwork in Nepal between the mid 1960s and late 1970
American smoke
The visionary writer Iain Sinclair turns his sights to the Beat Generation in America in his most epic journey yet "How best to describe Iain Sinclair?" asks Robert Macfarlane in The Guardian. "A literary mud-larker and tip-picker? A Travelodge tramp (his phrase)? A middle-class dropout with a gift for bullshit (also his phrase)? A toxicologist of the twenty-first-century landscape? A historian of countercultures and occulted pasts? An intemperat…
The Hidden History of The Tibetan Book of the Dead – By Bryan J. Cuevas
Remaking Buddhism for Medieval Nepal
Lights out for the territory
This is a record of long journeys on foot, from Hackney to Chingford and down to the river, around the City in its ring of steel, and through the heart of Westminster, Lambeth and Millbank. Sinclair writes about the graffiti and guerrilla politics of Dalston, about the cult of feral dogs, and helps to bury Ron Kray. He gains access to Lord Archer's apartment overlooking the river, and considers the novelist as connoisseur, before meeting the grea…
Future memory
Bulls & Bears & Mithraic Misalignments
Vajramahākāla and the śaivasaugata rulers of Dharmāśraya and Siṅhasāri
Impressive images of a ferocious deity holding a cleaver and skullcup emerged in precolonial Sumatra. The deity is depicted with a female partner on the sword Mandākinī, and as a monumental statue found at Dharmāśraya in the Sumatran highlands. These images are often said to represent (the Śivaite) Bhairava and king Ādityavarman (c. 1294–1374), but they have overt marks of Buddhist affiliation. It is shown here that they represent Vajramahākāla, …
Future memory
Bulls & Bears & Mithraic Misalignments
Lights out for the territory
This is a record of long journeys on foot, from Hackney to Chingford and down to the river, around the City in its ring of steel, and through the heart of Westminster, Lambeth and Millbank. Sinclair writes about the graffiti and guerrilla politics of Dalston, about the cult of feral dogs, and helps to bury Ron Kray. He gains access to Lord Archer's apartment overlooking the river, and considers the novelist as connoisseur, before meeting the grea…
Remaking Buddhism for Medieval Nepal
The Hidden History of The Tibetan Book of the Dead – By Bryan J. Cuevas
War Magic and Just War in Indian Tantric Buddhism
Warfare was widespread in classical India. Although the Buddhists of India abhorred killing, they could not evade or ignore war altogether. From the seventh century to the thirteenth century, various types of war magic, together with justifications for their use, developed in tantric Buddhist communities. Defensive types of war magic adhered to pacifist ethics and aimed to avoid, halt, or disperse armies. Harmful war magic was applied in the cont…
Introduction
Michael Allen is a pioneering figure in the study of the Newars, the indigenous people of Nepal's Kathmandu Valley. Allen carried out his main fieldwork in Nepal between the mid 1960s and late 1970
American smoke
The visionary writer Iain Sinclair turns his sights to the Beat Generation in America in his most epic journey yet "How best to describe Iain Sinclair?" asks Robert Macfarlane in The Guardian. "A literary mud-larker and tip-picker? A Travelodge tramp (his phrase)? A middle-class dropout with a gift for bullshit (also his phrase)? A toxicologist of the twenty-first-century landscape? A historian of countercultures and occulted pasts? An intemperat…
London Overground
Iain explores modern London through a day's hike around the London Overground route. The completion of the full circle of London Overground provides Iain with a new path to walk the shifting territory of the capital. With thirty-three stations and thirty-five miles to tramp - and inevitable and unforeseen detours and false steps - he embarks on a marathon circumnavigation at street level, tracking the necklace of garages, fish farms, bakeries, co…
Appendix A
Coronation and Liberation According to a Javanese Monk in China
War Magic
The Creative South
This edited volume programmatically reconsiders the creative contribution of the littoral and insular regions of Maritime Asia to shaping new paradigms in the Buddhist and Hindu art and architecture of the mediaeval Asian world. Far from being a mere southern conduit for the maritime circulation of Indic religions, in the period from ca. the 7th to the 14th century those regions transformed across mainland and island polities the rituals, icons, …
Vajramahākāla and the śaivasaugata rulers of Dharmāśraya and Siṅhasāri
Impressive images of a ferocious deity holding a cleaver and skullcup emerged in precolonial Sumatra. The deity is depicted with a female partner on the sword Mandākinī, and as a monumental statue found at Dharmāśraya in the Sumatran highlands. These images are often said to represent (the Śivaite) Bhairava and king Ādityavarman (c. 1294–1374), but they have overt marks of Buddhist affiliation. It is shown here that they represent Vajramahākāla, …
Statutes for Semi-monastics
The rise of a semi-monastic class, whose members eschew full monastic vows while remaining part of a monastic community, is one of the last developments in South Asian Buddhism. An important point of reference for this development is a little-studied handbook of regulations, the Pāpaparimocana or Emancipation from Sin, also called Mañjuśrīpārājikā. Here the semi-monastic is defined as practicing “half of that” which is the religion of the bhikṣu.…
The Soteriologies of Buddhist Tantrism
Tantric Buddhist practices, often regarded as transgressive or liminal, diverge from the sedate ways of the monastic establishment and the bodhisattva ideal of selfless altruism. The reconciliation of these quite different paths to enlightenment is one of the landmark intellectual projects of late Buddhism. Tantrism was conceived as a way (naya) or vehicle (yāna) leading to awakening that could be followed alongside monastic or bodhisattva religi…
Fauna Names in the Ḍākārṇava
The fifteenth chapter of the Ḍākārṇava, a late Buddhist tantra, describes an elaborate maṇḍala containing one hundred and eight kinds of fauna, among its other inhabitants. While most of these fauna names are known to derive from a tenth-century tantric treatise, the Laghutantraṭīkā, over two dozen names have not previously been identified with particular kinds of fauna. This study investigates the novel fauna names of the tantra in connection wi…
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