Mahapratisara-Mahavidyarajni

Hidas, Gergely:
Mahāpratisarā-Mahāvidyārājñī : the Great Amulet, Great Queen of Spells / Introduction, critical ed. and ann. transl. by Gergely Hidas. - New Delhi : Aditya Prakashan, 2012. - 289 S. : Ill. - (Śatapiṭaka series ; 639)
Hochschulschrift. Teilw. zugl.: Oxford, Univ., Diss., 2009
ISBN 978-81-7742-114-9
Rs. 2500,00
US$ 106,75 (D.K. Agencies)
DDC: 294.385

Beschreibung
This volume provides the first critical edition and complete Western translation of an influential apotropaic scripture of Mahāyāna Vajrayāna Buddhism, The Great Amulet, Great Queen of Spells (Mahāpratisarā-Mahāvidyārājñī). This piece of the dhāraṇī literature from around the middle of the first millennium became a member of the popular Pañcarakṣā collection and has remained in use in Nepal up to the present time.
   After an introduction, editions of the five Gilgit fragments (ca. 7th c.) and fifteen selected Eastern Indian and Nepalese manuscripts (11th-19th c.) are given, followed by an annotated translation.
   The present study offers a detailed treatment of a scripture rather neglected by scholarship and attempts to throw light on the characteristics and use of this talismanic text of the Kriyā-tantra in South Asian Buddhism and beyond.

Inhalt
1. Previous Research
2. Sources
3. Structure
4. Contents
5. Contexts
6. Practice
7. A Critical Edition of the Gilgit Fragments
8. The Text Preserved in the Gilgit Fragments
9. A Critical Edition of Selected Eastern Indian and Nepalese Manuscripts
10. The Textual Traditions Preserved in the Selected Eastern Indian
and Nepalese Manuscripts
11. An Annotated Translation
Bibliography
Index

Herausgeber/Übersetzer

GERGELY HIDAS holds a doctorate in Classical Indian Religion from the University of Oxford. He is currently a research fellow at the Department of Indo-European Studies, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest.

Quellen: Aditya Prakashan; Mitteilung des Verfassers in der Mailing-Liste H-Buddhism, vom 10. Jan. 2012; D.K. Agencies