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
ISSN : 0073-8352
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 an Associate Professor at Ashoka University, Haryana. He defended his doctorate at Leiden University, where he joined the NWO project "From Universe of Visnu to Universe of Siva". He then held a research position in the ERC Śivadharma at the University of Naples. Previously, he was a researcher at the Pondicherry Centre of the EFEO and at the NGMCP in Kathmandu. His research interests include Śaivism, Vaiṣṇavism, Vedic literature, and kāvya.
