Kālavañcana in the Konkan: How a Vajrayāna Haṭhayoga Tradition Cheated Buddhism’s Death in India

Mallinson, James

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“…For various ways in which scholars have framed the contours of this group, some more convincing than others, seeVenkatraman 1990, Zvelebil 1996, Weiss 2009, Mallinson 2019, and Ezhilraman 2015. For consideration of their place in the wider pan-Indian context of the Siddhas, seeWhite 1996 andLinrothe et al 2006. …”

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Tumuli Stones, Sacred Geography, and Meditation Halls for Mantra

Cantú

2023

CracowIndologicalStudies

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This article examines how the patronage of tumuli, belief in sacred geography, the institution of meditation halls, and the practice of mantra at these halls converged in Tamil Nadu at the turn of the 19th century to facilitate a pan-sectarian Tamil “consensus” on yoga in the literature of Sri Sabhapati Swami (Capāpati Cuvāmikaḷ, b. 1828). The article begins by analyzing the phenomenon of tumuli (Tamil jīva-camāti) among Sabhapati’s gurus in the line of Kumara Devar (Kumāratēvar), as well as his own students. It then shows how such a phenomenon was intertwined with the mythology of Agastya and the Tamil Siddhas via Sabhapati’s other guru line. Consideration is also given to the role of mantra in these tumuli and their accompanying “Meditation Halls” (maṭālayams). The article concludes by claiming that intersections between tumuli sites, yoga, and mantra warrant more attention given their ability to attract emotional investment and financial patronage from various levels of society.

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2023

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“… 48 See, for example, the discussion of the development of the cult of Tārā of Tarapith in Ramos (2017, pp. 70–87); also see the discussion of the Buddhism's hatha yoga connection and the surviving Buddhist vestiges in the Mañjunātha temple in Kadri, Karnataka, India in Mallinson (2019). …”

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China in medieval Indian imagination: “China”-inspired images in medieval South Asia

Kim

2021

International Journal of Asian Studies

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Cross-cultural exchanges between India and China during the first millennium are often understood through a Buddhist lens; by investigating the impact of Indian Buddhist sources, be they literary, doctrinal, or artistic, to receiving Chinese communities. In these cultural transactions, instigated by traveling pilgrim-monks and enacted by imperial power players in China, India emerges as a remote, idealized, and perhaps “hollow” center. Imagined or real, the importance of images of India in medieval Chinese Buddhist landscape has been established beyond doubt. What seems to be missing in this unidirectional looking is the impact of these cultural communications in India. What were the Indian responses to Chinese Buddhists' demands and their physical presence? How was China imagined and translated in medieval India? This essay proposes to locate the activities of Chinese monks in India and the iconographies of China-inspired Indian Buddhist images within the larger historical context of shifting cultural and political geography of the medieval Buddhist world. By exploring different types of evidence from borderlands, vis-à-vis the monolithic concepts of China and India, the essay also complicates the China–India studies' comparative model.

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“…On the Nāth Saṃpradāya, see Mallinson 2011. 28 The historical context of this connection is explored in Mallinson 2019, in which the Konkan site of Kadri (in present-day Mangalore) is proposed as the location of the transition from Vajrayāna Buddhism to Nāth Śaivism evinced by the Amaraughaprabodha's reworking of the teachings of the Amṛtasiddhi.…”

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The Amṛtasiddhi: Haṭhayoga’s Tantric Buddhist Source Text

Mallinson¹

2020

Śaivism and the Tantric Traditions

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Like many of the contributors to this volume, I had the great fortune to have Professor Sanderson as the supervisor of my doctoral thesis, which was a critical edition of an early text on haṭhayoga called the Khecarīvidyā. At the outset of my work on the text, and for several subsequent years, I expected that Sanderson's encyclopedic knowledge of the Śaiva corpus would enable us to find within it forerunners of khecarīmudrā, the haṭhayogic practice central to the Khecarīvidyā. However, notwithstanding a handful of instances of teachings on similar techniques, the fully-fledged practice does not appear to be taught in earlier Śaiva works. In subsequent years, as I read more broadly in the corpus of early texts on haṭhayoga (which, in comparison to the vast Śaiva corpus, is relatively small and thus may easily be read by one individual), I came to the realisation that almost all of the practices which distinguish haṭhayoga from other methods of yoga were unique to it at the time of their codification and are not to be found in the corpus of earlier Śaiva texts, despite repeated assertions in secondary literature that haṭhayoga was a development from Śaivism (or "tantra" more broadly conceived).The texts of the haṭhayoga corpus do, however, couch their teachings in tantric language. The name of the haṭhayogic khecarīmudrā, for example, is also that of an earlier but different Śaiva practice. When I was invited to speak at the symposium in Professor Sanderson's honour held in Toronto in 2015, I decided to try to articulate my rather inchoate thoughts on this subject by presenting a paper entitled "Haṭhayoga's Śaiva Idiom." The inadequacy of my theories was brought home to me some months after the symposium when I started to read, together with two other former students of Sanderson, Péter-Dániel Szántó and Jason Birch,1 a twelfth-century manuscript of the Amṛtasiddhi (AS), the earliest text to teach many of the key principles and practices of

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Kālavañcana in the Konkan: How a Vajrayāna Haṭhayoga Tradition Cheated Buddhism’s Death in India

Cited by 8 publications

References 19 publications

Tumuli Stones, Sacred Geography, and Meditation Halls for Mantra

Tumuli Stones, Sacred Geography, and Meditation Halls for Mantra

China in medieval Indian imagination: “China”-inspired images in medieval South Asia

The Amṛtasiddhi: Haṭhayoga’s Tantric Buddhist Source Text

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