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Participants and Papers (a provisional list)
Section 4 - Āgamas and Tantras
Conveners: Shingo Einoo, Dominic Goodall
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Diwakar Acharya
New Evidence for the Dating and Religious Practices of Pāśpatas
Marie-Luce Barazer-Billoret
Temple festivals (
utsava
) according to
Dīptāgama
Gudrun Bühnemann
Complex Configurations: Śiva, Sṛṣṭikartā Lokeśvara and the Golden Window in Patan (Nepal)
Bruno Dagens
The position of
Dīptāgama
in āgamic literature
Ronald Davidson
Seventh Century Buddhist Tantrism in Tension with non-Buddhist Traditions: Ritual Choreography and Theistic Imagination
Shingo Einoo
Bali-offerings in the Brahmanical and Buddhist Texts
Pierre-Sylvain Filliozat
Rāmakaṇṭha and Aghoraśiva's reflections on the concepts of Śiva and of soul's impurity
Dominic Goodall
Tentative sketch of a possible relative chronology of some early Tantric works and authors, principally of the Śaivasiddhānta
Yohei Kawajiri
Two Commentaries on the Opening Verse of the
Īśvarapratyabhijñāvimarśinī
of Abhinavagupta
Vincent Lefèvre
Patronage and social issues in the
Dīptāgama
Nina Mirnig
Identifying the dead in the early Shaiva Siddhaanta scriptures: the emergence of Shaiva cremation (antyeṣṭi)
Lubomir Ondračka
The Character of Immortality in the Nātha-Siddha Sanskrit Texts
Sujata Purkayastha
Tāntric
Kuladharma
: An Analysis of its Philosophy and Practices
Sampathkumaracharyulu
A Note on Vaihayasi-Samhita (An unpublished Pancaratra-Agama text)
Olga Saraogi
Meanings of
mudrās
in
Jayadrathayāmala
: from objects to the state of Bhairava
S.A.S. Sarma
The synthesis of Śaiva and Vaiṣṇava systems of worship in ritual manuals - a unique feature of the ritual literature of Kerala
Anna Ślączka
The iconography of the deities in the Devyamata (Nisvasakhyamahatantra)
Ryugen Tanemura
Śaiva Paralles in the
Kriyāsaṃgrahapañjikā
Toru Tomabechi
''Recycling'' Texts: A Textual History around the Skt. Ms. Göttingen Xc 14/30b(1) and Vibhūticandra's
Piṇḍīkṛtasādhanapañjikā
Toru Tomabechi
Tumburu and his Four Sisters in the Buddhist
Paramādya
Cycle
Judit Törzsök
Human Hair or Cotton Thread: Remarks on the Prescription of Impurity in Some Early Tantras
Chieko Yamano
Nagarjuna the Alchemist -- A Legend at the Confluence of Buddhist and Śaivist Tantric Tradition