Tantric Buddhist Practice in India

Part 1: Introductions

Overview

1. Contexts

2. Vilasavajra: locating the NMAA's author

3. The Namasa?giti

4. Vilasavajra's NMAA: overviews and remarks

5. The NMAA's ma??ala in Himalayan Art

Part 2: Vilasavajra's Namamantrarthavalokini:
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 Mayajala'

Chapter 5: On 'The Vajradhatu-Mahama??ala 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 Vilasavajra's Namamantrarthavalokini:
Chapters 1-5

Adhikara 1

Adhikara 2

Adhikara 3

Adhikara 4

Adhikara 5

Textual notes

Insignificant variants

Textual collation to establish the stemma codicum Appendices

Appendix 1. Works and authors cited in the NMAA

Appendix 2. Sa?vara, Cakrasa?vara and ?a?prajnanaya-
sa?vara citations

Appendix 3. NMAA colophons

Appendix 4. NMAA manuscripts: folio references

Appendix 5. NMAA ma??ala-deities and doctrinal categories

Appendix 6. Sakurai's (1988) edition of NMAA 3-4.

Appendix 7. Works attributed to Vilasavajra in Tibetan translation

Appendix 8. Namasa?giti commentaries

Appendix 9. Namasa?giti (1-41): parallel text and translation