Katherine Anne Harper & Robert L. Brown 
The Roots of Tantra [PDF ebook] 

List of Illustrations

Preface
Katherine Anne Harper

Introduction
Robert L. Brown

PART I: Overviews

1. What Do We Mean by Tantrism?
André Padoux

2. Early Evidence for Tantric Religion
David N. Lorenzen

PART II: The History and Development of Tantra

3. Historical and Iconographic Aspects of Sakta Tantrism
M. C. Joshi

4. Auspicious Fragments and Uncertain Wisdom: The Roots of Srividya Sakta Tantrism in South India
Douglas Renfrew Brooks

5. The Structural Interplay of Tantra, Vedanta, and Bhakti: Nondualist Commentary on the Goddess
Thomas B. Coburn

PART III: The Art History and Archaeology of Tantra

6. The Spinal Serpent
Thomas Mc Evilley

7. The Warring Saktis: A Paradigm for Gupta Conquests
Katherine Anne Harper

8. Early Evidence of the Pancaratra Agama
Dennis Hudson

PART IV: The Vedas and Tantra

9. Imagery of the Self from Veda to Tantra
Teun Goudriaan

10. Tongues of Flame: Homologies in the Tantric Homa
Richard K. Payne

PART V: The Texts and Tantra

11. Becoming Bhairava: Meditative Vision in Abhinavagupta’s Paratrisika-laghuvrtti
Paul E. Muller-Ortega

12. Tantric Incantation in the Devi Purana: The Padamala Mantra Vidya
Lina Gupta

List of Contributors
Glossary
Index

Katherine Anne Harper is Associate Professor of Art History at Loyola Marymount University and the author of
The Iconography of the Saptamatrikas: Seven Hindu Goddesses of Spiritual Transformation.
Robert L. Brown is Professor of Art History at the University of California, Los Angeles and the Curator of Southeast Asian Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. He is the author of
The Dvaravati Wheels of the Law and the Indianization of South East Asia, and editor of
Ganesh: Studies of an Asian God, also published by SUNY Press, and
Art from Thailand.