Tantric Buddhist Practice in India

Anthony Tribe is an independent scholar with a research specialization in the history and development of tantric Buddhism in India. He is the co-author of Buddhist Thought: A Complete Introduction to the Indian Tradition (2012), also published by Routledge.

Part 1: Introductions

Overview

1. Contexts

2. Vilâsavajra: locating the NMAA’s author

3. The Nâmasaṃgîti

4. Vilâsavajra’s NMAA: overviews and remarks

5. The NMAA’s maṇḍala in Himalayan Art

Part 2: Vilâsavajra’s Nâmamantrârthâvalokinî:
an annotated translation of chapters 1–5

Conventions in the translation

Chapter 1: On ‘The Request for Instruction’

Chapter 2: On ‘The Reply’

Chapter 3: On ‘The Survey of the Six Families’

Chapter 4: On ‘The Method of Awakening According to the Mâyâjâla’

Chapter 5: On ‘The Vajradhâtu-Mahâmaṇḍala of Bodhicittavajra’ Part III: Sanskrit Edition

Materials and Methods

1. Sigla

2. Manuscripts

3. Method of Editing

4. Stemma Codicum

5. The Tibetan Translation of the NMAA

Critical Edition of Vilâsavajra’s Nâmamantrârthâvalokinî:
Chapters 1–5

Adhikâra 1

Adhikâra 2

Adhikâra 3

Adhikâra 4

Adhikâra 5

Textual notes

Insignificant variants

Textual collation to establish the stemma codicum Appendices

Appendix 1. Works and authors cited in the NMAA

Appendix 2. Saṃvara, Cakrasaṃvara and Ṣaṭprajñânaya-
saṃvara citations

Appendix 3. NMAA colophons

Appendix 4. NMAA manuscripts: folio references

Appendix 5. NMAA maṇḍala-deities and doctrinal categories

Appendix 6. Sakurai’s (1988) edition of NMAA 3–4.

Appendix 7. Works attributed to Vilâsavajra in Tibetan translation

Appendix 8. Nâmasaṃgîti commentaries

Appendix 9. Nâmasaṃgîti (1–41): parallel text and translation