The catalog of EFEO Publications includes works on a wide range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences (archaeology, history, anthropology, literature, philology, etc.), centered on Asia, from India to Japan.
These publications address both specialists, and a wider public interested in Asian civilizations and societies.
Niśvāsamukhatattvasamhitā
A Preface to the Earliest Surviving Śaiva Tantra
Collection : Collection Indologie
Collection's number: 145
Editor: KAFLE (Nirajan)
Edition: EFEO, Institut français de Pondichéry (IFP)
Publication date: 2020
Status : Available
43,00 €
ISBN-13 : 9782855392400
Width : 17.5 cm
Height : 24.5 cm
Weight : 0.97 kg
Number of pages : 555
Distributor : EFEO Diffusion, EFEO Pondichéry Contact : shanti@efeo-pondicherry.org
Geography : India
Language : English, Sanskrit
Place : Pondichéry
Support : Papier
Description :
17,5 x 24,5 cm, 555 p. Langages: English, Sanskrit
Abstract
This volume presents the first edition, along with an English translation, of a Sanskrit work of perhaps the seventh century surviving in a single ninth-century Nepalese witness: the Niśvāsamukhatattvasaṃhitā. It would be difficult to exaggerate the usefulness of this primary source for the history of the Śaiva religions. Ostensibly an introduction to the Niśvāsamukhatattvasaṃhitā, it purports to sketch the religious context in which the Mantramārga emerged. In so doing, it provides invaluable help in mapping the contours of the relations between four different traditions of early Śaivism, namely: 1) that of the Pāñcārthika Pāśupatas, 2) that of the Lākulas (here lokātīta), 3) the Mantramārga and 4) pre-Mantramārga "lay" practices. The work is bracketed by a detailed introduction and an appendix presenting material borrowed into the Śivadharmasaṅgraha.
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About the editor
KAFLE (Nirajan)
Nirajan Kafle is a researcher of the ERC Sivadharma Project in Naples. He defended his doctorate in Lei-den (2015), where he then joined the NWO project 'From Universe of Viṣṇu to Universe of Śiva'. Previ-ously, he was researcher at the NGMCP (2002- 7, 2011- 14) and the Pondicherry EFEO (2007- 2011, 2014-16), lecturer at Lumbini University (2012-14) and Kathmandu University (2007-8), and local man-ager of Historical Documents of Nepal (2014).
