1st Edition
Tantric Buddhist Practice in India Vilasavajra�s commentary on the Ma�jusri-namasa?giti
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:
Biography
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.
