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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 AcharyaNew Evidence for the Dating and Religious Practices of Pāśpatas
Marie-Luce Barazer-BilloretTemple festivals (utsava) according to Dīptāgama
Gudrun BühnemannComplex Configurations: Śiva, Sṛṣṭikartā Lokeśvara and the Golden Window in Patan (Nepal)
Bruno DagensThe position of Dīptāgama in āgamic literature
Ronald DavidsonSeventh Century Buddhist Tantrism in Tension with non-Buddhist Traditions: Ritual Choreography and Theistic Imagination
Shingo EinooBali-offerings in the Brahmanical and Buddhist Texts
Pierre-Sylvain FilliozatRāmakaṇṭha and Aghoraśiva's reflections on the concepts of Śiva and of soul's impurity
Dominic GoodallTentative sketch of a possible relative chronology of some early Tantric works and authors, principally of the Śaivasiddhānta
Yohei KawajiriTwo Commentaries on the Opening Verse of the Īśvarapratyabhijñāvimarśinī of Abhinavagupta
Vincent LefèvrePatronage and social issues in the Dīptāgama
Nina MirnigIdentifying the dead in the early Shaiva Siddhaanta scriptures: the emergence of Shaiva cremation (antyeṣṭi)
Lubomir OndračkaThe Character of Immortality in the Nātha-Siddha Sanskrit Texts
Sujata PurkayasthaTāntric Kuladharma: An Analysis of its Philosophy and Practices
SampathkumaracharyuluA Note on Vaihayasi-Samhita (An unpublished Pancaratra-Agama text)
Olga SaraogiMeanings of mudrās in Jayadrathayāmala: from objects to the state of Bhairava
S.A.S. SarmaThe synthesis of Śaiva and Vaiṣṇava systems of worship in ritual manuals - a unique feature of the ritual literature of Kerala
Anna ŚlączkaThe iconography of the deities in the Devyamata (Nisvasakhyamahatantra)
Ryugen TanemuraŚaiva 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 TomabechiTumburu and his Four Sisters in the Buddhist Paramādya Cycle
Judit TörzsökHuman Hair or Cotton Thread: Remarks on the Prescription of Impurity in Some Early Tantras
Chieko YamanoNagarjuna the Alchemist -- A Legend at the Confluence of Buddhist and Śaivist Tantric Tradition