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Mélanges tantriques à la mémoire d’Hélène Brunner. Tantric Studies in Memory of Hélène Brunner
Collection : Collection Indologie
Collection's number: 106
Editor: Goodall (Dominic), Padoux (André)
Edition: EFEO, Institut français de Pondichéry (IFP)
Publication date: 2007
Status : Out of Print
32,00 €
ISBN-13 : 978-2-85539-666-8
ISSN : 0073-8352
Width : 17 cm
Height : 24 cm
Weight : 1 kg
Number of pages : 582
Distributor : EFEO Pondichéry Contact : shanti@efeo-pondicherry.org, distributeur online : scholarswithoutborders@gmail.com, distributeur Chennai : jibh.rkc@gmail.com
Geography : India
Language : French
Place : Pondichéry
Support : Papier
Abstract
Hélène BRUNNER was a pioneering scholar of Śaivism whose work helped to forge the scholarly reputation of the French institutions of research in Pondicherry. This volume of essays offered in her memory reflects the range of her interests and offers thereby a picture of the state of tantric studies today. Prefaced to the volume is a biographical sketch of Hélène BRUNNER by her colleague and friend of many years, André PADOUX (directeur de recherche honoraire of the CNRS), as well as a complete list of her published works. Theological and philosophical aspects of tantric literature are addressed in the contributions of Gerhard OBERHAMMER (emeritus Professor, Vienna), Francesco SFERRA (Professor, Università degli Studi di Napoli L’Orientale), and Raffaele TORELLA (Professor at « La Sapienza », Rome). Peter BISSCHOP (Lecturer, Edinburgh) and Marion RASTELLI (Austrian Academy of Sciences) throw light on connections between the tantric and puranic religious worlds. Diwakar ACHARYA (Lecturer, Kyoto) has uncovered and published primary source material about initiation in pre-tantric Śaivism. Iconography and tantric ideas that underly it is the subject of the article of Pierre-Sylvain FILLIOZAT (Membre de l’Académie des Inscriptions & Belles-Lettres). Leslie C. ORR and Richard H. DAVIS (Professors of Religion at Concordia University and Bard College respectively) combine the evidence of inscriptions and tantric literature to present what we know of the participants in South Indian temple festivals in medieval times. Tantric speculations about the alphabet, particularly its written form at the time of redaction of the scriptures of the Trika, is the focus of Somdev VASUDEVA (Editor, Clay Sanskrit Library). A scripture of the Siddhanta, the 100-verse recension of the Kalottara, is edited for the first time by Dominic GOODALL (Head of the Pondicherry Centre of the EFEO). Judit TÖRZSÖK (Lecturer, Charles-de-Gaulle University, Lille 3) examines explanations given in the tantras of the “meaning” of ritual. The largest contribution of all, taking up a third of the book, is the magisterial survey of Kashmirian Saiva exegetical literature by Alexis SANDERSON (Spalding Professor of Eastern Religions and Ethics, All Souls, Oxford).
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About the editor
Goodall (Dominic)
Member of the EFEO since 2000.
Dominic Goodall studied Greek and Latin, then Sanskrit at Pembroke College, Oxford. After finishing his BA (Sanskrit with Pali, 1990), he came to Hamburg for two years to learn medieval Tamil with Professor S.A. Srinivasan. He then returned to Oxford, to Wolfson College, where, under the guidance of Professor Alexis Sanderson, he produced a critical edition of the opening chapters of Bhaṭṭa Rāmakaṇṭha’s tenth-century commentary on the Kiraṇatantra, which he submitted as a doctoral thesis in 1995 and subsequently published from Pondicherry in 1998. He was attached to the French Institute of Pondicherry as a junior researcher in 1996–1997 before returning to Oxford as Wolfson College Junior Research Fellow of Indology from 1998 to 2000. In 2000, he became a member of the École française d’Extrême-Orient (EFEO, “French School of Asian Studies”). He became Head of the Pondicherry Centre of the EFEO in 2002, where he remained until April 2011.
Posted in Paris from 2011 to 2015, he gave lectures at the École pratique des hautes études (Religious Sciences Section), principally on Cambodian inscriptions in Sanskrit and on the history of Śaivism from unpublished sources. He is now once again posted in Pondicherry, where he continues to pursue his scholarly interests, in particular in Sanskrit poetry and in the history of the Śaiva Siddhānta.
Among his publications are editions and translations of works of poetry in Sanskrit and of hitherto unpublished Śaiva scriptures and theological commentaries.
He is currently a professor (directeur d’études) at the EFEO, co-editor with Dr. Marion Rastelli of the Viennese dictionary of tantric terminology, the Tāntrikābhidhānakośa, and a contributor to the Hamburg Encyclopaedia of Manuscript Cultures in Asia and Africa (EMCAA).
In May 2016, he was elected membre correspondent étranger de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.
