Andrea Acri
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 597349 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Andrea Acri |
| NOMBRES | Andrea |
| APELLIDO | Acri |
| FIRMA | ACRI A |
| AFILIACIONES | École Pratique des Hautes Études |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9633-829X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 48 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 45 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 43 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 5 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2009 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Healing in Premodern Java and Bali
This article presents and discusses key evidence on medicine, healing and herbal remedies in premodern Indonesia. It focuses on literature in Sanskrit and Old Javanese from the 8th to the 15th century, as well as epigraphic documents from the same period. While many of the concepts encountered testifies to the transregional "Indospheric" and Sanskritic culture that characterises Southeast Asia in this period, one detects strong elements of locali…
Maritime Links Between China, Sumatra, the Malay Peninsula, and Buddhist Monasteries in India (c. 11th–12th Centuries) in the Light of Two Fragmentary Inscribed Strips of Copper from Muara Jambi
This article explores the maritime connections relating to Buddhism and diplomacy between polities in Sumatra, the Malay Peninsula, the Indian subcontinent, and China from the beginning of the 11th century up to the 12th century CE. It focuses on new epigraphic evidence from Muara Jambi in the form of two inscribed strips of copper mentioning the Cūḍāmaṇivarmavihāra, a monastery funded by the king of Śrīvijaya in Nagapattinam (South India), and t…
“Hard-Core” Tantric Traditions and the Cult of Bhairava in Java
This chapter surveys textual, archaeological, and art historical vestiges documenting the existence of hard-core tantric traditions in Java from ca. eleventh to the nineteenth century, especially those revolving around the worship of the demonic manifestation of Śiva known as Bhairava, as well as Goddess-oriented Śākta traditions and tantric Buddhist traditions. These traditions, although by no means unknown in Central Java prior to the tenth cen…
Études tantriques
Les conférences de l’année académique 2022-2023 se sont articulées autour de deux thèmes : I. Les doctrines du shivaïsme tantrique javanais (ca ve-xve siècles) à la lumière d’un texte en vieux javanais de caractère spéculatif et mystique, le Tattvajñāna, dont la lecture nous a donné l’occasion de jeter un regard comparatif sur la théologie śivaïte saiddhāntika connue à travers les textes canoniques indiens et la littérature en sanskrit-vieux java…
Antinomianism as a way to God in nineteenth-century Java
This article presents the first complete critical edition and annotated English translation of the nineteenth-century Javanese mystical poem Suluk Lonthang . Combining different disciplinary expertise in old and modern Javanese philology, Tantric Studies, and Islamic Studies, it interprets the protagonist of the poem as an expression of the multifaceted and multivocal Javanese religious landscape of the time, whose historical—and translocal—roots…
Monsoon Asia
Études tantriques
Programme de l’année académique 2021-2022 : I. Le śivaïsme javanais : doctrines et sources. Lecture du Tattvajñāna (suite) – II. Le tantrisme « vu de l’est » : genèse et circulation des traditions tantriques dans l’Asie des moussons (cours de master : « Initiation aux traditions tantriques »)
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, …
Études tantriques
Les conférences de l’année académique 2020-2021 se sont articulées autour du thème des doctrines du śivaïsme tantrique javanais (c. viiie-xve siècle) à la lumière d’un texte en vieux javanais de caractère spéculatif et mystique : le Tattvajñāna. Notre lecture nous a donné l’occasion de jeter un regard comparatif sur la théologie śivaïte saiddhāntika connue à travers les textes canoniques indiens et la littérature en sanskrit-vieux javanais de Jav…
Creative South
Tantra, Magic, and Vernacular Religions in Monsoon Asia
A Buddhist Bhairava? Kṛtanagara’s Tantric Buddhism in Transregional Perspective
This article discusses some key aspects of the historical and religious background of the period of Kṛtanagara and his aftermath in East Java and Sumatra. Our analysis is based on a comparative study of Sanskrit, Old Javanese, and Tibetan textual sources and artistic vestiges (“medias”) to highlight the transregional networks of tantric Buddhism (“traditions”) that may have contributed to shape the king’s religio-political agenda. Having identifi…
Horror, Transgression, and Power
This article discusses the theme of the “demonic numinous” and its association with horror, transgression, and power in the Tantra-influenced literatures and visual arts of Java and Bali from the premodern to the modern period. Emphasizing continuities, it surveys the instantiations of those motifs in artistic and textual vestiges from Central Java (ca. 8th–10th century CE), East Java (ca. 11th–15th century CE, with an aperçu on 1960s’ New Order …
Études tantriques
Les conférences de l’année académique 2019‐2020 se sont articulées – en présentiel au premier semestre, et en distanciel au deuxième semestre – autour du thème du yoga dans le prisme de la littérature tantrique de l’époque médiévale, en particulier les textes shivaïtes en sanskrit du Śaivasiddhānta, et les textes en sanskrit et vieux javanais de Java et Bali
Vedāntic Analogies Expressing Oneness and Multiplicity and their Bearing on the History of the Śaiva Corpus. Part I
Vedāntic Analogies Expressing Oneness and Multiplicity and Their Bearing on the History of the Śaiva Corpus. Part II
Translation as Commentary in the Sanskrit-Old Javanese Didactic and Religious Literature from Java and Bali
This article discusses the dynamics of translation and exegesis documented in the body of Sanskrit-Old Javanese Å aiva and Buddhist technical literature of the tutur/tattva genre, composed in Java and Bali in the period from c. the ninth to the sixteenth century. The texts belonging to this genre, mainly preserved on palm-leaf manuscripts from Bali, are concerned with the reconfiguration of Indic metaphysics, philosophy, and soteriology along loc…
Sugahara, Yumi / van der Molen, Willem
International audience
Theory vs. Philology in the Study of Balinese Culture, Religion, and Ritual
More than Words: Transforming Script, Agency, and Collective Life in Bali. Richard FoxCornell University Press, 2018. xviii + 239 pp., ISBN13/ 9781501725357, ISBN10/ 1501725351 This review essay is devoted to the latest book by Richard Fox on the fascinating and little-investigated subject of non-textual uses of letters (aksara) in contemporary Bali. It takes this wide-ranging publication as a point of departure for contributing to the ongoing de…
Recent publications on Indonesian manuscripts
The fascinating yet still underexplored world of manuscripts hailing from Southeast Asia, including the nation-state of Indonesia, has received some impetus in recent years, thanks to the new appreciation for this written heritage by state and non-state actors both within and without the country. Traditionally perceived as a dry (and hardly scientific or ‘intellectual’) subject that was the preserve of a small circle of specialist librarians, cod…
Sources du shivaïsme tantrique en sanskrit-vieux-javanais
Les conférences de l'année 2018-2019 ont été consacrées à la poursuite de la lecture et analyse du Bhuvanakośa (« Florilège des mondes »), un texte du shivaïsme tantrique en sanskrit-vieux-javanais survécu jusqu'à nous grâce à une dizaine de manuscrits balinais en feuilles de palmier (lontar
Navigating the ‘Southern Seas’, Miraculously
International audience
Imagining Asia(s)
Études tantriques
I. Sources du Shivaïsme tantrique en sanskrit-vieux-javanais : lecture du BhuvanakośaLes conférences de l’année académique 2017-2018 ont été entièrement consacrées à la lecture d’un texte du shivaïsme tantrique en sanskrit-vieux-javanais, le Bhuvanakośa (« Florilège des mondes »). Cette source textuelle de datation incertaine mais probablement composée en plusieurs étapes entre le viiie et le xvie siècle après J.-C., a survécu jusqu’à nous grâce …
Indic-Islamic encounters in Javanese and Malay mystical literatures
International audience
Esoteric Buddhism in Mediaeval Maritime Asia
This volume advocates a trans-regional, and maritime-focused, approach to studying the genesis, development and circulation of Esoteric (or Tantric) Buddhism across Maritime Asia from the seventh to the thirteenth centuries ce. The book lays emphasis on the mobile networks of human agents (‘Masters’), textual sources (‘Texts’) and images (‘Icons’) through which Esoteric Buddhist traditions spread. Capitalising on recent research and making use of…
The Romanisation of Indic Script Used in Ancient Indonesia
The paper calls the attention of Javanists, and Indonesianists at large, to theoretical as well as practical issues connected with conventions for the Romanisation of Old Javanese, Old Malay, Old Sundanese and other Indonesian languages which were traditionally written in Indic scripts, and underscores the difference between transliteration, on the one hand, and transcription or orthography (‘spelling’) on the other. In doing so, it replies to th…
Modern Hindu Intellectuals and Ancient Texts
This article aims at providing a fresh perspective on the modern, reformed version of 'Balinese Hinduism' that came to the fore on the island since the early 20th century. It describes certain important elements of doctrinal continuity and change in the light of the pre-colonial Śaiva religious discourse, on the basis of textual and historical data that have so far been neglected. It attempts to show that the Javano-Balinese theological tradition…
On birds, ascetics, and kings in Central Java Rāmāyana Kakawin, 24.95–126 and 25
In the first part of the paper I introduce stanzas 95-126 of Sarga 24 and the whole of Sarga 25 of the Old Javanese Rāmāyaṇa, which present the most difficult and least understood pieces of poetry in the whole of Old Javanese literature. The two sections, displaying a close relationship between each other on account of several shared lexical items and corresponding motifs, describe in allegorical terms animals, birds and plants in order to satiri…
Birds, Bards, Buffoons and Brahmans
On the basis of evidence gathered from Old Javanese textual sources and Central Javanese temple reliefs, I proposed to identify some figures of itinerant ascetics-cum-performers—the vidus—as localised Javanese counterparts of Indic prototypes, namely low-status and antinomian Śaiva practitioners (Acri 2011). Building on the work of Stutterheim, Becker, and Coldiron, here I take up additional textual, art historical, and ethnographic evidence from…
Vedāntic Analogies Expressing Oneness and Multiplicity and their Bearing on the History of the Śaiva Corpus. Part I
Vedāntic Analogies Expressing Oneness and Multiplicity and Their Bearing on the History of the Śaiva Corpus. Part II
Glimpses of Early Śaiva Siddhānta. Echoes of doctrines ascribed to Brhaspati in the Sanskrit-Old Javanese Vrhaspatitattva
Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in the Humanities, Social Sciences, International Law, and Biology. With offices in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, the USA and Asia, Brill today publishes more than 360 journals and 2,000 new books and reference works each year as well as a large number of databases and primary source research collections
A Buddhist Bhairava? Kṛtanagara’s Tantric Buddhism in Transregional Perspective
This article discusses some key aspects of the historical and religious background of the period of Kṛtanagara and his aftermath in East Java and Sumatra. Our analysis is based on a comparative study of Sanskrit, Old Javanese, and Tibetan textual sources and artistic vestiges (“medias”) to highlight the transregional networks of tantric Buddhism (“traditions”) that may have contributed to shape the king’s religio-political agenda. Having identifi…
The Place of Nusantara in the Sanskritic Buddhist Cosmopolis
This article synthesizes and links together evidence published thus far in secondary literature, in order to highlight the contribution of Nusantara to the genesis and circulation of various forms of Sanskritic Buddhism across Asia from the fifth to the fourteenth century. It places particular emphasis on its expansion via maritime routes. Archaeological vestiges and textual sources suggest that Nusantara was not a periphery, but played a constit…
Performance as Religious Observance in Some Śaiva Ascetic Traditions from South and Southeast Asia
My essay synthesizes, and elaborates on, previous research on the overlaps between performative arts and ascetic traditions of the Śaiva Atimārga in South and Southeast Asia. My analysis focuses mainly on textual data from Sanskrit and Old Javanese literature from the 4th to the 15th centuries, with contributions from modern and contemporary ethnography of Java and Bali. Here I will argue that categories of Śaiva practitioners who combined dance,…
The Sanskrit Colophon of the Tanjung Tanah Codex and Its Malay Gloss as Illuminated by Balinese and South Asian Parallels
International audience
The Śaiva Atimārga in the Light of Niśvāsaguhya 12.1–22ab
My essay investigates a short passage of the Guhyasūtra—the longest, most detailed, and arguably youngest of the ‘Sūtras’ constituting the Niśvāsatattvasaṃhitā, being the earliest Śaiva Tantra known to us. This is formed by verses 1–22ab of Paṭala 12, which single out the soteriological means and goals specific to such scantily documented Śaiva groups as the Pāñcārthika Pāśupatas, the followers of the Pramāṇaśāstras, the Kārukas, and the Vaimalas…
The Dikpālas of ancient Java revisited
Caṇḍi Śiva, sacred centre of the famous ninth-century Loro Jonggrang temple complex at Prambanan, Central Java, is decorated with numerous iconic and narrative reliefs. Starting from the eastern staircase and traversing the perambulatory in a clockwise direction, we find the narrative reliefs of the Rāmāyaṇa on the balustrade wall on our left, and the iconic reliefs of twenty-four seated male deities, each flanked by several attendants - collecti…
Sarbacker, Stuart Ray, Samādhi
Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in the Humanities, Social Sciences, International Law, and Biology. With offices in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, the USA and Asia, Brill today publishes more than 360 journals and 2,000 new books and reference works each year as well as a large number of databases and primary source research collections
From Lanka Eastwards
The Kakawin Ramayana, arguably the oldest Old Javanese epic text in Indic metres (circa 9th century AD), holds a unique position in the literary heritage of Indonesia. The poem has retained a remarkable vitality through the centuries in the Archipelago, inspiring many forms of artistic expression not only in the domain of literature but also in the visual and performing arts, from the reliefs of the majestic Central Javanese temples to modern pup…
On birds, ascetics, and kings in Central Java Rāmāyana Kakawin, 24.95–126 and 25
In the first part of the paper I introduce stanzas 95-126 of Sarga 24 and the whole of Sarga 25 of the Old Javanese Rāmāyaṇa, which present the most difficult and least understood pieces of poetry in the whole of Old Javanese literature. The two sections, displaying a close relationship between each other on account of several shared lexical items and corresponding motifs, describe in allegorical terms animals, birds and plants in order to satiri…
Glimpses of Early Śaiva Siddhānta. Echoes of doctrines ascribed to Brhaspati in the Sanskrit-Old Javanese Vrhaspatitattva
Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in the Humanities, Social Sciences, International Law, and Biology. With offices in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, the USA and Asia, Brill today publishes more than 360 journals and 2,000 new books and reference works each year as well as a large number of databases and primary source research collections
Alternative approaches to eighth-century Central Javanese Buddhist architecture
Review of: Caesar Voûte and Mark Long, Borobudur: Pyramid of the cosmic Buddha. Mark Long, Candi Mendut: Womb of the Tathāgata
Yogasūtra 1.10, 1.21–23, and 2.9 in the Light of the Indo-Javanese Dharma Pātañjala
The Dikpālas of ancient Java revisited
Caṇḍi Śiva, sacred centre of the famous ninth-century Loro Jonggrang temple complex at Prambanan, Central Java, is decorated with numerous iconic and narrative reliefs. Starting from the eastern staircase and traversing the perambulatory in a clockwise direction, we find the narrative reliefs of the Rāmāyaṇa on the balustrade wall on our left, and the iconic reliefs of twenty-four seated male deities, each flanked by several attendants - collecti…
Reorienting the Past
Modern Hindu Intellectuals and Ancient Texts
This article aims at providing a fresh perspective on the modern, reformed version of 'Balinese Hinduism' that came to the fore on the island since the early 20th century. It describes certain important elements of doctrinal continuity and change in the light of the pre-colonial Śaiva religious discourse, on the basis of textual and historical data that have so far been neglected. It attempts to show that the Javano-Balinese theological tradition…
The Śaiva Atimārga in the Light of Niśvāsaguhya 12.1–22ab
My essay investigates a short passage of the Guhyasūtra—the longest, most detailed, and arguably youngest of the ‘Sūtras’ constituting the Niśvāsatattvasaṃhitā, being the earliest Śaiva Tantra known to us. This is formed by verses 1–22ab of Paṭala 12, which single out the soteriological means and goals specific to such scantily documented Śaiva groups as the Pāñcārthika Pāśupatas, the followers of the Pramāṇaśāstras, the Kārukas, and the Vaimalas…
Birds, Bards, Buffoons and Brahmans
On the basis of evidence gathered from Old Javanese textual sources and Central Javanese temple reliefs, I proposed to identify some figures of itinerant ascetics-cum-performers—the vidus—as localised Javanese counterparts of Indic prototypes, namely low-status and antinomian Śaiva practitioners (Acri 2011). Building on the work of Stutterheim, Becker, and Coldiron, here I take up additional textual, art historical, and ethnographic evidence from…
The Romanisation of Indic Script Used in Ancient Indonesia
The paper calls the attention of Javanists, and Indonesianists at large, to theoretical as well as practical issues connected with conventions for the Romanisation of Old Javanese, Old Malay, Old Sundanese and other Indonesian languages which were traditionally written in Indic scripts, and underscores the difference between transliteration, on the one hand, and transcription or orthography (‘spelling’) on the other. In doing so, it replies to th…
The Sanskrit Colophon of the Tanjung Tanah Codex and Its Malay Gloss as Illuminated by Balinese and South Asian Parallels
International audience
Introduction
Once More on the ‘Ratu Boko Mantra’
International audience
Esoteric Buddhism in Mediaeval Maritime Asia
This volume advocates a trans-regional, and maritime-focused, approach to studying the genesis, development and circulation of Esoteric (or Tantric) Buddhism across Maritime Asia from the seventh to the thirteenth centuries ce. The book lays emphasis on the mobile networks of human agents (‘Masters’), textual sources (‘Texts’) and images (‘Icons’) through which Esoteric Buddhist traditions spread. Capitalising on recent research and making use of…
Spirits and Ships
Études tantriques
Programme de l’année 2016-2017 : I. Le shivaîsme ancien (atimārga) en Inde et Asie du Sud-Est. – II. Séminaire de troisième heure (cours de master) : « Initiation aux traditions tantriques »
The Place of Nusantara in the Sanskritic Buddhist Cosmopolis
This article synthesizes and links together evidence published thus far in secondary literature, in order to highlight the contribution of Nusantara to the genesis and circulation of various forms of Sanskritic Buddhism across Asia from the fifth to the fourteenth century. It places particular emphasis on its expansion via maritime routes. Archaeological vestiges and textual sources suggest that Nusantara was not a periphery, but played a constit…
Performance as Religious Observance in Some Śaiva Ascetic Traditions from South and Southeast Asia
My essay synthesizes, and elaborates on, previous research on the overlaps between performative arts and ascetic traditions of the Śaiva Atimārga in South and Southeast Asia. My analysis focuses mainly on textual data from Sanskrit and Old Javanese literature from the 4th to the 15th centuries, with contributions from modern and contemporary ethnography of Java and Bali. Here I will argue that categories of Śaiva practitioners who combined dance,…
Navigating the ‘Southern Seas’, Miraculously
International audience
Imagining Asia(s)
Études tantriques
I. Sources du Shivaïsme tantrique en sanskrit-vieux-javanais : lecture du BhuvanakośaLes conférences de l’année académique 2017-2018 ont été entièrement consacrées à la lecture d’un texte du shivaïsme tantrique en sanskrit-vieux-javanais, le Bhuvanakośa (« Florilège des mondes »). Cette source textuelle de datation incertaine mais probablement composée en plusieurs étapes entre le viiie et le xvie siècle après J.-C., a survécu jusqu’à nous grâce …
Indic-Islamic encounters in Javanese and Malay mystical literatures
International audience
Becoming a Bhairava in 19th-century Java
This article is a preliminary exploration of suluk texts aiming at advancing P.J. Zoetmulder’s ideas with respect to the Indic origins of some characters and doctrinal elements in Javanese mystical texts. It will identify possible continuities between Indic and Islamic paradigms, thereby revisiting and rebalancing scholarly perspectives that have stressed the Sufi origins of Javanese Islam – or uncritically posited its inherent, yet nebulous, ‘Ja…
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